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July 2014

July 02, 2014

How Having an (Insurance-Covered) IUD is Saving My Life

If I were to become pregnant again, there is enormous potential for another harrowing birth...

May 2014

May 16, 2014

We Know God Through Scripture…and So Much More

Shortly after we were married, Daniel and I traveled to Boone, North Carolina—home of Daniel's...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Troll-Proofing Our Online Writing

At the Festival of Faith and Writing two weeks ago in Grand Rapids, Michigan, my...

March 2014

March 26, 2014

Why I Support the Ordination of Women & LGBTQ People

I support the ordination of women and LGBTQ people because if I didn't, I would...

January 2014

January 22, 2014

An Op Ed Loaded with Oversimplifications about Abortion & Adoption

I've avoided writing about abortion for a while. It's an issue tangential to my core...

November 2013

November 13, 2013

How to Promote Yourself (& Others) Without Driving People Crazy

In my online group of women writers, we've been discussing Kat Stoeffel's article on New York...

September 2013

September 24, 2013

A Story About the Abundance, and Absence, of Memory and Faith

Walker has written a story about Alzheimer's, yes, and about her mother, and about her....

July 2013

July 18, 2013

I am Pro-Choice, But Jezebel Does Not Speak for Me

My friend and colleague Amy Julia Becker wrote a lovely post on the Christianity Today women's...

July 17, 2013

College Hookup Sex is Built on a Troubling Ethic of Achievement at Any Cost

After reading Kate Taylor’s New York Times article on the culture of casual hookup sex...

July 10, 2013

Do I Love the Bible? It’s Complicated.

Christians like me, who lean left on political and social issues, are often accused of...

June 2013

June 18, 2013

Have One Child or Many, Just Don’t Plan on Getting What You Expect

Whether you choose to have one child or many, the children you end up with,...

June 13, 2013

Because He Cleans the Shower Drain: A Father’s Day Tribute

Sometimes I fall into the trap of believing that I already do everything anyway, that...

June 11, 2013

I Have a Kid Hangover (But Manage to Write Anyway)

The past thirteen-plus years for me have been one long exercise in welcoming the messy,...

June 10, 2013

Instead of Judging Our Fellow Parents, How About Offering Empathy & Respect?

Parents love to judge each other for all kinds of perceived failures. Here are some...

May 2013

May 14, 2013

Does God Hate Clutter? I Used to Think So, But Now I’m Not So Sure

All of our stuff can distract and overwhelm us, but it can also provide context....

May 07, 2013

Progressive Christians Do Care About Abortion: A Response to Rachel Held Evans

Blogger/author Rachel Held Evans wrote an excellent post last week titled Why Progressive Christians Should...

May 06, 2013

How Mother’s Day 2006 Was the Beginning of the Rest of My Life

This is the story I told at this past weekend's inaugural Speak Up storytelling event...

May 02, 2013

Parents-to-Be Have More Choices Than Ever, But We Can’t Choose Our Way Out of Pain

Jennifer Gilmore’s story is enough to scare anyone away from open adoption. (It also provides...

May 01, 2013

Why I Don’t Call Myself a “Cancer Survivor” (& Why We Should All Think Twice Before Donning a Pink Ribbon)

Three autumns ago, I walked into a radiologist's office after a follow-up mammogram. He pointed...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Questions Remain About the “Controversy in Candy Land”

On Saturday, Jana Riess posted a piece on her Religion News Service blog raising questions...

February 2013

February 15, 2013

“Love and Salt”: Two Friends Seeking God with Mind and Heart

Love and Salt: A Spiritual Friendship in Letters is the kind of book that you...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

Things to Ponder Before Undergoing Prenatal Testing

My friend, colleague, and fellow Patheos blogger Amy Julia Becker has a new e-book titled...

December 2012

December 14, 2012

A Whole New Way to Bring Home Baby

As the one-year anniversary of my book publication approaches in January, I’m devoting Fridays from...

October 2012

October 12, 2012

On Writing, Reading, and Seeking Direction

I feel I owe regular readers of this blog an apology...or at minimum, an explanation....

September 2012

September 24, 2012

Why Allowing Parents to Choose Their Baby’s Gender is Wrong

When I write and speak about the ethical questions raised by reproductive technologies, I do...

September 10, 2012

Fed Up with “The Church”? Try a Different One (Maybe Even in the Mainline!)

In a hugely popular post titled "Confessions of an Accidental Feminist," blogger, author, and evangelical...

August 2012

August 06, 2012

The Life and Death of My Tattoo

A couple of weeks ago, I decided to get a tattoo. This idea came out...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

Six Annoying Things that Readers Say To and About Bloggers

One commenter to my essay on the New York Times Motherlode blog last week, in...

June 2012

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 11, 2012

MOMumental: A Parenting Book Even I Can Endorse

Let’s be clear: I do not “do” parenting books. I don’t read books about how...