Friday Soul Food: Wormwood, World Vision, and Why We Love to Hate
There was a day ten years ago when I felt ashamed to be human. The Massachusetts' government was deciding whether to expand marriage rights to gays and lesbians. Hundreds of men and women, utterly and unapologetically opposing each other, faced off in front of the...
Waiting for Spring: The Evidence of Things We Cannot See
“We are not yet what we shall be but we are growing toward it. The process is not yet finished, but it is going on. This is not the end, but it is the road.” A Defense and Explanation of All Articles, Martin Luther Spring officially arrives this week. But here in...
Friday Soul Food: Reclaiming Eve
“Move beyond your self-image, your past, and your circumstances to discover who God created you to be.” How would our lives be different if we walked in the reality that men and women were designed and created by God to live as equals? That paradigm has...
Not Who I Imagined: Surprised by a Loving God
Author Margot Starbuck asks the salient question, “What if God receives me exactly as I am?” Sit with that a moment. Now ask yourself, “How has my culture, my friends, my family, or my significant others communicated to me that I need to be different than who I am?”...
Friday Soul Food: Why I Blew Up on National Radio–And Why I’m Not Apologizing
Writing can be a vulnerable profession. We sit alone ordering our thoughts and working to make sense of an increasingly insane world. When we feel done enough, we hit publish, allowing the world to peek into our souls. It’s humbling. It’s terrifying. And it’s not...
Friday Soul Food: Barbie, Sports Illustrated, and the Cultivation of (Misguided) Desire
The word misogyny became part of our sons’ vocabulary before they learned to master multiplication. Given the abundance of testosterone in our house (three sons, no daughters), one of my parenting priorities became teaching them what it meant to respect, value,...
FullFill Magazine: Wired for Beauty
For more than fifteen years, my family lived in the midst of a claustrophobic, somewhat neglected section of Boston. We had to navigate idling buses spewing their toxic fumes and idling drunken men-often spewing toxins...
Friday Soul Food: Love – If It’s the Most Excellent Way, Why Is It So Darn Difficult?
Love is patient and kind. Not jealous or boastful or proud or rude or irritable. It conveniently forgets wrongs. I'm curious–does anyone actually love like this because I don’t. The notion of being loved by someone who never gives up on us, never loses faith in us,...
Mary DeMuth’s Not Marked
It would be easy to categorize Mary DeMuth’s new book, Not Marked as an offering to victims of sexual abuse–but it’s so much more. Not Marked details what happens when men abuse the creative power God has given them and how Jesus steps in to redeem us. It’s a...
Relevant Magazine: Fear Doesn’t Have to Control Us
As far back as I have memory, I remember being afraid. By the time I reached my twenties, I assumed that fearfulness was as much a part of my DNA as my dimples and brown hair. But as I read Scripture, that logic repeatedly unraveled. The first time I came across...