by Dorothy Greco | Apr 4, 2014 | Blog, Friday Soul Food, Spirituality
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...
by Dorothy Greco | Mar 14, 2014 | Blog, Book review, Friday Soul Food, Spirituality
“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...
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 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 7, 2014 | Blog, Friday Soul Food, Spirituality
Great Brook Cross Country Ski Trails, Carlisle, MA “Hope is a projection of the imagination; so is despair.” Thorton Wilder My imagination must be worn out. One too many cancer diagnoses, sub-zero winter days, and rejection letters. One too many humans in...
