Faith and Doubt
Not Naked, and Not Ashamed ~ A Guest Post
Many of you have asked me good questions about my posts on writing naked: what to share and what not to share, when to share, and what to do with the parts of those stories that aren’t yours. These questions do not have easy answers, but my friend Alise has some very helpful thoughts that…
Read MoreSearching for a New Church?
Originally posted on May 27, 2012, at the beginning of our search for a new church. It took us some time, but we finally left an abusive church situation earlier this year. This was the first of a series of posts about our search. *** We are looking for a new church. In our nearly…
Read MoreTen Reasons We Need Christmas Right Now
Have you found Q Ideas for the Common Good yet? I just stumbled across them the other day. They describe themselves as a place leaders can explore what a better world, one that reflects God’s original design and intention, might look like and how God’s intention is showing up in the lives of their peers and the…
Read MoreWe’ve Forgotten What Church Really Is
We left an abusive church in May of this year, and spent most of the summer visiting other churches. Not pleasant. All the pain and all the wandering prompted me to ask “What IS church, anyway?” in this post, originally published on June 11, 2012. *** Another Sunday morning, another room full of chairs all facing…
Read MoreEvil Is Not and Cannot Be Good
An organization called “Faith Biblical Counseling” tweeted this today: “Hurting and grieving parents are often comforted by remembering that Jesus loves their children more than they ever could.” Reading statements like this makes me see red. This idea diminishes the grief and loss that those parents face. It refuses to name evil as such. It…
Read MoreWhy I Stayed in the Cycle of Shame
It is so easy to second-guess my response to the heat I’ve taken from church leaders over my blog and social media activity. Sometimes I want to tell the me from three years ago to grow a pair and walk out. But then I remember the person I was at the time. I was, in…
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