Posts by writingjoy
Life: unmasked (a new writing project) and more every-day gifts
Snippets of the day flash across my mind’s eye as I lay in bed, trying to sleep. The pictures and memories play over and over with this song as the soundtrack. “This is the stuff that drives me crazy….This is the stuff You use.” …Tears for Ellie again in the worship service at church, and…
Read MoreMy Social Media Modus Operandi (or How To Be a Better Facebook Debater)
My husband’s favorite analogy for my approach to social media is cock-fighting. He likes to call me “the female Michael Vick of the blogosphere.” When I post something particularly controversial, he launches into his impression of me and snipes, “Kill Whitey! Discuss!” I must protest. Sure, I love to throw bait out, like “What do…
Read MoreSmack Dab in the Middle
I’m often frustrated by the Christian books marketed to children, and to their parents. The children’s Bibles are filled with fragmented stories selected apparently at random out of the Bible and illustrated with chubby-cheeked white-skinned cherubic children. The stories in fiction are stilted and artificial. The rhyming books… oh the rhyming books. Everyone thinks they…
Read More“Will There Be Faith? A New Vision for Educating and Growing Disciples”
With so many young (and not so young) people walking away from faith these days, parents and church leaders are asking themselves why people don’t embrace the faith of their childhood and make it their own. In “Will There Be Faith? A New Vision for Educating and Growing Disciples,” Thomas Groome presents an approach to…
Read MoreWorship Series Epilogue: If We Sing What We Really Mean
In May of this year, I wrote series of posts on worship. This morning I spotted this Youtube video which makes the perfect epilogue to that series. (If you are reading this post in your email, click here to view the post and video on my blog.) Posts in the worship series: How You Can…
Read MoreAll That Matters Is How We Love
(RSS readers please click the title to view the video in your browser.) Life has taught me this Everyday is new And if anything is true All that matters when we’re through Is how we love Faced with what we lack Some things fall apart From the ashes will dream start All that matters to…
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