This is now hanging on my kitchen wall, in between the copper-tiled backsplash by the stove and my apron hook. I’ve been hankering, no, craving, an icon in my home for over a year now, since I first saw icons in a home of one of my professors (who happens to be Orthodox). This family…
When I say I’m a feminist, all I mean is that women should be treated like Jesus treated them. In love, fairness, justice, and equality under the law. The majority of women around the world today are not treated with fairness and justice. This is why I call myself a Christian feminist. – Abby at…
Even though I’m an English major with a passion for editing and good grammar, I still write in all lowercase when I’m on IM. I write poetry in lowercase, too. I think it’s because when I allow myself to be transparent, I’m still afraid [of getting squelched? being too confident in my own opinions?] and…
1) I have some long posts in draft form. Coming soon. This stuff is personal and hard to write about, sometimes. 2) Hopefully, I’ll be posting some guest posts, too! 3) A friend wrote a really good post about contentment disguised as laziness and legalism. 4) I started NaNoWriMo yesterday. This is the result of…
we pulled up to paradise, trying not to peek at the rubble next door. apprehension seduced me, and we pretended not to watch the scavengers sorting through the shambles of a life, strewn on the sidewalk like crumbs fallen in the corner behind an overfull trash can. i held my breath but nothing happened. you…
We went to see Sara Groves. The end.
I’ve been stewing on this for a while. As an English major, I’ve studied some Feminist theory and think it’s a fascinating mental exercise (I also think it’s lazy academics, most of the time, but that’s another issue). As the daughter of conservative Christians attempting to revive/reinvent orthodoxy (“reinvent” in the sense that they didn’t…
When should critics of bad pastoral methods, teaching, and theology stop using Matthew 18 as their guidelines for resolving an issue of possible abuse or heresy (this is not your average church quarrel) and start addressing the issue like a serious academic argument? When should the gloves of nice church behavior come off and the…
After a couple months of steady discouragement fogging up my thoughts, I’m waking up to discover that it’s melting away. All I can see are new ideas, new options–life rearranged in a myriad of shapes, and they’re all pretty exciting. This morning was a grumpy morning (Monday showed up and Thursday called in sick): the…
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may…