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June 2012

June 05, 2012

That Darn Camel: No More Living Life “Just in Case”

by Connie Jakab This is the second of a series of five posts exploring money...

June 04, 2012

That Darn Camel: My Struggle with Tithing

"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye...

June 01, 2012

Patheos (& Other) Peeps: Katherine Willis Pershey on Marriage, Motherhood, and Ministry

Every Friday, I feature something written by one of my fellow bloggers at Patheos, a...

May 2012

May 24, 2012

This is What Love Looks Like

A mother, mother-in-law, aunt, grandmother, and great-grandmother dies, and we gather. We walk through Ruby's...

May 16, 2012

Goodbye to Ruby

On Monday morning, May 14, my mother-in-law, Ruby Kimrey Dollar, died. Which makes my husband...

May 14, 2012

Two Posts I’m Not Going to Write

It is a constant bloggerly temptation to feel that I have to weigh in on...

May 09, 2012

On Being a Mixed-Label Christian

As I explain in the About Me section of this blog, I wear a number...

May 08, 2012

What I’ve Learned About Adopting a Dog…the Hard Way

One week. That's how long our latest adopted rescue dog lasted in our home. One....

May 04, 2012

Patheos (& Other) Peeps: On Marilynne Robinson and the Fear Culture

Every Friday, I post a link to a blog post, sometimes written by one of...

April 2012

April 27, 2012

Patheos (& Other) Peeps: The Festival of Faith and Writing

Every Friday, I post a link to a blog post, sometimes written by one of...

April 26, 2012

Narrative Ethics as “Educational Storytelling”

I mentioned in Tuesday's post that in a recent radio interview, the host referred to...

April 25, 2012

A Haiku About Gallbladder Surgery (Yes, Really)

Rather frequently, someone asks me if I ever expect to write fiction. My answer: To...

April 23, 2012

A Few of Many Good Words Spoken

I returned yesterday from the biannual Festival of Faith and Writing in Grand Rapids, Michigan....

April 16, 2012

Another Blogging Break Ahead…

Yes, I realize I haven't gotten back to a full blogging schedule since my last...

April 13, 2012

Patheos (& Other) Peeps: Alison Hodgson on Etiquette for Perilous Times

Every Friday, I post a link to a blog post, sometimes written by one of...

April 12, 2012

Writing 101 (for the Kindergarten Set)

It's been a busy week of speaking engagements for me—one radio interview, one TV interview,...

April 09, 2012

Welcome to the “Best Thing Blog Hop”

Blogging provides writers like me with lots of opportunities—to publish and reach audiences without going...

April 09, 2012

Believe the Better Story

(Originally published on April 1, 2010 on my former blog, Five Dollars and Some Common...

April 06, 2012

A Poem for Good Friday

For the epigraph in my book No Easy Choice, I chose a stanza from Wendell...

April 05, 2012

Two New Reviews of “No Easy Choice”

I'm still on something of a blogging break, though I hope to be back to...

April 03, 2012

Just Look Up (A Meditation of Sorts on Psalm 123)

I woke up yesterday feeling surrounded. Put upon. Up to my eyeballs in shhh...tuff. In...

March 2012

March 27, 2012

I’m Taking a Blogging Break (But Here’s Some Other Stuff to Read)

I'm taking a short blogging hiatus (for the rest of this week, possibly into next...

March 23, 2012

Patheos Peeps: Julie Clawson on the “Hunger Games,” Consumerism, and Justice

Every Friday, I post a link to a blog post written by one of my...

March 22, 2012

A Little Lent Check-In

Spring has fully sprung here in Connecticut. I am a New Englander at heart who...

March 21, 2012

The Tyranny of the News Hook

Here's one of many hard lessons I've learned as a writer publishing primarily online: You...

March 20, 2012

Why I Still Watch “American Idol”

Yes, I know American Idol is passe. The audience numbers are way down. The show...

March 19, 2012

Yes, Low-Tech Treatments for Infertility Do Exist

by Stacie Longwell Hill, guest blogger Editorial note from Ellen: I was thrilled to recently...

March 16, 2012

And Now, a Poem About Ice Cream

Golly, things get heavy around here sometimes, don't they? They do. I'm feeling the weight...

March 16, 2012

Patheos Peeps: Jana Riess on Facebook as Comfort for the Grieving

Every Friday, I post a link to a blog post written by one of my...

March 15, 2012

My Bottom Line on Abortion—and Why I’m Going to Stop Writing About It for a While

Several years ago, as I was just beginning to blog about reproductive ethics, I asked...