by Dorothy Greco | Feb 28, 2014 | Blog, Friday Soul Food, Spirituality
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...
by Dorothy Greco | Feb 21, 2014 | At the Intersection of Faith & Culture, Blog, Friday Soul Food
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,...
by Dorothy Greco | Feb 19, 2014 | Art, Photography, & Beauty, Blog, FullFill Magazine, Spirituality
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...
by Dorothy Greco | Feb 13, 2014 | Blog, Friday Soul Food, Marriage & Family, Spirituality
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...
by Dorothy Greco | Feb 12, 2014 | Blog
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...
by Dorothy Greco | Feb 10, 2014 | Blog, Relevant Magazine, Spirituality
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...