I listed to a beautiful testimony from a missionary today who is from eastern Africa. She grew up locally to me, in northeastern Ohio, but moved to Africa a few years ago with her husband and their three children. But now, her residence is IN Africa, and I just want to give a nod to…
You know, one thing I think I’ve too long denied is my desire to empower women. I let A LOT get in the way of my personal security, and even let many people talk me out of this mission. I’ve had people tell me my desire to show women how beautiful they are was vain…
Recently, there’s been some drama with evangelist, Clayton Jennings, and blogger/pastor JD Hall. If you don’t know who either of these people are, don’t worry about it. It’s not worth looking into – it’s just dumb, but I’ll sum it up: an entitled and proud millennial evangelist is super mad about a conservative, judgmental blogger…
Dear Desiring God, John Piper, and anyone else that thinks only Christians can actually love, You’re wrong. I used to really like Desiring God, and I used to really admire you, John Piper. And you’re a brilliant guy, you really are. But sometimes, I think you take things a bit (or a lot) too far.…
I used to carry this scripture in my order book when I worked in restaurants. It’s from a chapter in 1 Peter titled, ‘Living for God.’ It continues: Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 9 Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 Each of you should…
If you’re like me, you jam. And lately, a good jam for me has been ‘No Roots‘ by Alice Merton. And it strikes me as somehow familiar, because it feels like my 2016. At the beginning of that year, I prayed to God for a word or an intention, and ‘roots’ is what I got.…
Today is World Breast Pumping Day, and it’s so sentimental to me that my youngest babe is also one month old today! *if breast feeding/pumping/breast milk weirds you out, do not proceed – there, you’ve been warned, ha!* Just a little back story: after my daughter (my first child) was born, I really wanted to…
