courage

Dance with me

Post published:October 22, 2018
Post category:Knowing and Going with God
Post last modified:March 18, 2024

Learning to dance with God means being vulnerable, flexible, brave, as he frees us from the paralysis of the religious and teaches us to move in sync with him.

Feast of Joy, Day 5

Post published:September 27, 2018
Post category:Times and Seasons
Post last modified:March 20, 2024

On Day 5 of the Feast of Tabernacles, celebrate the joy of courageously following through.

From Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara staring into each other's eyes

How do I tell you?

Post published:October 12, 2017
Post category:From: We Confess!
Post last modified:August 1, 2024

Shame that’s exposed hurts like hell. But only – only – when brought out into the light can shame be dealt with and sent away.

Woman hiker with backpack, standing where the path crests on a cliff, looking down on the huge, barren canyon below

Photo by sara.atkins

God is kind but not soft

Post published:May 12, 2017
Post category:Knowing and Going with God
Post last modified:March 18, 2024

Mini-post. "God is kind, but he's not soft ..." A notable Bible quote and an image of a courageous woman that encourage me to go with God.

From the cover of Pondering Privilege: White dove holds an olive branch in its beak, over the book's subtitle, "toward a deeper understanding of whiteness, race, and faith."

A call to cultural humility

Post published:June 11, 2016
Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:March 10, 2024

This book is a call to cultural humility by a woman who writes with a lot of humility. It's a call to us who are white to press in to see that what we count "normal" may not be others' normal at all.

Illustration: Man in casual collared shirt holds Bible in left hand, pointer in the right. Posted to his right are 10 small human silhouettes - the kind used for target practice. They're lined up in 2 rows. Smiling broadly with his mouth, but not at all with his eyes, the man points to the one silhouette colored red.

Dis-abling spiritual abuse

Post published:August 22, 2013
Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:March 10, 2024

Insights from Carolyn Custis James that can help us recognize and "dis-able" spiritual abuse.

Closeup of me snuggling my firstborn moments after her birth

Book writing and baby birthing

Post published:July 28, 2013
Post category:My Story
Post last modified:March 12, 2024

Bringing forth a viable book - or any other work that is living, breathing and life-giving - requires waiting and cooperating with God through the whole gestation period, however long he designates it to be.