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Family, Parenting and Religion

2013-06-11T16:31:54-07:00

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One Good Phrase: Micha Boyett (All will be well)

Last updated on: June 11, 2013 at 4:31 pm By michaboyett

These are the days of holding the deep portions. The days where your husband walks the kids to the park and on the way his phone lights up with the worst kind of news. Tragedy. A friend’s life ended. And like that, he arrives at the playground, where his kids run and pour sand and swing so high they’re almost to Mars. These are the days when the hard news comes fast and abrubt, in the grocery store parking lot.... Read more

2013-06-04T16:26:57-07:00

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One Good Phrase: Katie Noah Gibson (With all kinds of doubts)

Last updated on: June 4, 2013 at 4:26 pm By michaboyett

I first bonded with Katie Noah Gibson over our similar lives, both West Texas girls who found ourselves on the East coast, navigating the giant cultural gap between the two. I think her words today were just for me. And I think they might be just for you too. For a lifelong reader, I came late to the work of Madeleine L’Engle. I didn’t have a taste for fantasy as a child, so I never read A Wrinkle in... Read more

One Good Phrase

doubt

hope

2013-05-29T07:26:44-07:00

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One Good Phrase: Annie Barnett (Everyone is learning)

Last updated on: May 29, 2013 at 7:26 am By michaboyett

I love Annie Barnett because the kindness that shows up in her writing and visual art is an actual reflection of who she is. I love her because she is an artist soul and when you see her illustrations, you feel a sort of hope. Last year, she wrote here about the sacred work of creating. So happy to have her back again today. A decade ago, I took the helm of a public school fourth grade classroom. Along... Read more

2014-03-19T12:24:27-07:00

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The Pursuit of Enough: When sadness lives on the doorstep of happiness

Last updated on: March 19, 2014 at 12:24 pm By michaboyett

A couple of months ago, I had a conversation about my book with a former professor, a writing mentor. We were trying to get at the heart of this story I’m trying to tell in my memoir. Yes, it’s about prayer and losing it and finding it again in an entirely new, hope-giving way. But what’s underneath that? Why did prayer become something I was so afraid of? My former professor asked me this question on the phone: “Micha,... Read more

The Pursuit of Enough

2013-05-21T21:40:42-07:00

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One Good Phrase: Mihee Kim-Kort (Be different.)

Last updated on: May 21, 2013 at 9:40 pm By michaboyett

Mihee Kim-Kort is whip-smart, kind, and somehow able to get at the nitty gritty of theology in a vulnerable and approachable way. Every time I read her work, I’m challenged by it. And I consider it an honor to host her today. Most of my life, I have struggled with wanting to belong. To the group of cool kids. To the group of smart kids. To the group of athletic kids. To the group of Christians. To the group... Read more

2013-05-15T22:57:50-07:00

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Pentecost and my new post at a Deeper Church

Last updated on: May 15, 2013 at 10:57 pm By michaboyett

I have a new post up at a Deeper Church about Pentecost, the daily physical stuff of life, and the question my son’s Sunday School asks him every week: “Are you ready to worship God?” “’I will not take you out of the world.’ There are enormous implications here that I can so easily neglect. Christ was a carpenter for most of his life, and those years were not wasted ones…. Christianity does not isolate the sacred from the... Read more

A Deeper Church

Holy Spirit

spiritual practice

2013-05-15T07:15:18-07:00

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One Good Phrase: Addie Zierman (God is here)

Last updated on: May 15, 2013 at 7:15 am By michaboyett

If you follow my Twitter feed, you know I retweet whatever Addie Zierman has just posted on her blog just about every day. I can’t help it. I’m a fan-girl. Also, I’m her friend. Our lives in the Church have mirrored each other’s in so many important ways. And every time I come to her story, I’m learning something new about myself. And really, what better praise can you give a writer? By the time I was my son’s... Read more

One Good Phrase

mama life

present moment

2013-05-13T22:08:30-07:00

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On Writing (and my memoir)

Last updated on: May 13, 2013 at 10:08 pm By michaboyett

I’ve spent a lot of time getting to know my head. All my life, my thoughts have been ferocious and loud, clanging inside my skull, daring me to control them. All my life, I’ve understood that they’d calm if I could pull them out like Professor Dumbledore with his sieve, reaching in and plucking forth the silver slither of a thought. Writing is like that for me. It’s bearing forth what’s rattled in me, setting it under the light and... Read more

The Mama Monk

work

writing

2013-05-07T20:51:09-07:00

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One Good Phrase: Leigh Kramer (Conversation is like…)

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 8:51 pm By michaboyett

Leigh Kramer sees the world in a lovely way. I am always reading her posts and saying, “Oh, I never thought of it like that” and I’m so grateful for her voice. Also, we are TV watching kindreds, especially when it comes to shows I’m a little embarrassed to say I love. Welcome Hopefulleigh! So happy to have you here. People described me as shy when I was younger but I disagreed. I wasn’t scared to talk with folks;... Read more

2013-05-07T16:57:39-07:00

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I’m Talking Taboo…and you can too.

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 4:57 pm By michaboyett

“What happens when young, American women speak the unspeakable about our experiences of faith?” That’s the question I was asked a year ago when I received an email from a writer friend asking me to contribute to a new compilation of essays from Christian women who were willing to “unearth the taboos that have stifled us, divided us, and prevented us from feeling at home in Christian communities.” I was invited to talk about the “taboo” subjects that we often keep hidden in the... Read more

Women and the Church

Talking Taboo

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