Breaking Traditions

On the last night of the Soulation Gold Gathering in September, Jonalyn did a fascinating presentation on different Christian fai…

Four Novembers

I thought it might be time to tell the full story of November 2009, the month that changed my everything forever. I've never …

Guest Post: The God Who Hears

I met Jamie, blogger at Ava Anomaly , in my Story 101 class this summer. We were paired up for a peer critique and hit it off rig…

Resting and Being

My biggest takeaways from the Soulation Gold Gathering weren't the things I would have expected. Exhibit A: the importance o…

Soulation Gold Gathering

A couple of years ago, my friend Hillary and I were having one of our many conversations about Christian Women's Issues. She …

My History of Silence

I've spent most of my life apologizing for my opinions, but I'm currently experiencing a lot of opportunities and encoura…

Birthday Reflections

It's my birthday! Partly inspired by my writing class, I wanted to write a post about "What I Know" at 34. But I c…

The Redemption of the King

The book of I Samuel has always been one of my favorites in the Bible – I've read it many, many times. I love Hannah the moth…

Owning It

Two friends and I are about halfway through reading and discussing Anything by Jennie Allen. If you haven't read it, it'…

Reach and Release

(The current prompt for my writing class is reach and release . I'm not sure if the following is the direction we were suppo…

All Who Wander

Source: Andrew at Cuba Gallery . Beautiful work! Throughout my teen years, I tried on a lot of denominations and schools of C…

Love Is Worth It

A friend recently ended a long, undefined relationship. Although it was terribly painful, she says she doesn't regret it or c…

Neediness

I hate needing people. I've spent a lot of my adult life actively cultivating toughness and independence. It hasn't com…

Good Friday

We Christians are supposed to spend Good Friday dwelling on how much Jesus suffered to cleanse us from our sins. Yes, His suffe…

Abundance

Even though I'm a Christian, my perspective on life can veer shockingly karma-ward. It's so subtle that I didn't sta…

The champions of the world.

I always cry at championships. Even if I don't have strong feelings about the winning team (and even if I didn't see the …

Dropping the shopping bag.

(Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz, one of my early style influences) I gave up clothes shopping for Lent. Part of me is asham…

Never alone.

I've been doing a great Bible study on Mark with a group of women from church. This week's text was the Crucifixion. Not …

Our Lord of the Pizza Pan

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The Grace Card

Today is a big day for many Memphians. It's the wide release of The Grace Card , a film about race, forgiveness, and reconcil…