Has Jesus Wrecked Your Life? Katie Davis and the Tale of Two Kingdoms
Have you heard of Katie Davis? The 19-year-old class president and homecoming queen from Nashville, Tennessee who “quit her life” to begin a ministry in Uganda and become a foster mother to 14 girls?...
View ArticleDo Christian Novels Romanticize Abuse?
I’ve been tired lately. Mind-and-heart tired. So tired that yesterday, I decided the most productive thing I could do was give my brain needed a much-needed vacation. I wasn’t in the mood for a movie,...
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Junia Is Not Alone
Anabaptist or not, Scot McKnight comes out swinging in his bite-sized eBook defending women in ministry, “Junia is Not Alone.” I. Loved. It. Of course it contained the solid, thoughtful scholarship...
View ArticleEvangelicals and Eating Disorders
Yep, you read that right. “Evangelicals and Eating Disorders.” That’s what I’m writing about today. Rachel Stone just rocked my world with her post “How Patriarchy Gave Me an Eating Disorder.” I didn’t...
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Natasha and Sophie’s Radical Challenge
If you’ve read this blog for long, you know how much I loved “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream” by David Platt. Well, my friend Natasha loved it too, and blogged through the...
View ArticleChanging the World is Overwhelming. Start Where You Are, and Smile More!
We’re on the second week of the study I’m facilitating on “Half the Church,” and I’m loving the discussions we’re been having. I’ve been so blessed by the insights the women in my community have, and...
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The Princess (Syndrome) Must Die: On Poisoning Schoolgirls’ Bodies and Minds
This article makes me so mad I could spit. For the third time in two weeks, the Taliban has been accused of poisoning little girls, spraying down their schoolrooms with toxic chemicals to discourage...
View ArticleWhen Sex Ruins a Perfectly Good Read
Maybe it’s the domestic violence trainings I’ve been going through, making me realize how many romantic “heroes” fit the classic profile of abusers. Maybe it’s the 50 Shades of Grey phenomenon, and the...
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Win a Kindle, Win a Book, Be a Happy Reader!
I’m super-excited about the things coming up on this blog in 2013! To celebrate, I’ll be giving a Kindle away to one new email subscriber. To enter the drawing, sign up for email updates in the box in...
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Quiet, Snowy Weekends and Other Things to be Thankful For
Well, tomorrow morning I’m off to a cabin in the woods (many thanks to my hosts, Bonnie and Doug!) to start cobbling together an outline and book proposal for a project on mutual marriage. I’ve NEVER...
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Video: Fuzzy Socks and Airplane Lit for my Flight to Kenya
Hey friends! I'm hoping to do some vlogging while I'm in Kenya to introduce you to some of the folks I meet while I'm there, and figured I'd better test out my technology. My discovery so far? My iPad...
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Surviving in a Difficult Christian Marriage: Excerpt from a New Book
One of the things I love about Elisabeth Klein Corcoran is her willingness to write honestly about a taboo topic: brokenness in Christian marriages. Like, the kind no amount of praying or pleading or...
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Reclaiming Eve: How the gospel restores women
Suzanne Burden is a heart sister, a gentle woman who wants to see women thrive, set free to work in God’s kingdom alongside their brothers. I’m thrilled to be posting this short description and Q&A...
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Loneliness, Community, and Loving the Common Enemy
I've been reading The Connecting Church by Randy Frazee for one of my classes. It talks about the epidemic of loneliness in the United States, the impact individualism has had on the American psyche,...
View ArticleExciting News from Tanzania!
I got more exciting news about the Called Out curriculum that I wrote today! Eliya and Consoler, who serve in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, shared that Called Out, CBE’s youth curriculum, is being...
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