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June 2013

June 16, 2013

Would Father’s Day be different?

Would Father's Day be different . . . If Christianity wasn't preaching that, not only...

May 2013

May 15, 2013

Can you love others if you can’t love yourself?

Trigger Warning for discussions of depression and suicide Today on Twitter, someone that I follow...

March 2013

March 20, 2013

Spiritual Abuse Awareness Week: My Guest Post at Rachel Held Evans

Today I'm guest posting at Rachel Held Evans' blog, talking about abuse and images of...

March 01, 2013

For Grandma (Rest in Peace)

I wrote this piece for my grandmother about a year ago. She was not expected...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

Feminisms Fest: I need feminism because there is no love without justice.

When I heard that Preston Yancey, Danielle Vermeer, and J.R. Goudeau were hosting a three-day blog...

January 2013

January 29, 2013

Why I’m a Unitarian Universalist

I want to talk about faith for a second. I'm a Unitarian Universalist. People often...

January 28, 2013

Account and Countenance

Trigger Warning for intimate partner violence/verbal abuse and spiritual abuse I'm on a guest-posting streak...

December 2012

December 19, 2012

When I don’t want to be a Christian anymore, I just believe in love

I believe in love. I feel that I must take a moment to define my...

December 07, 2012

A church “building project” that made a difference

Many churches get super excited about building projects. These projects are supposed to represent big changes...

November 2012

November 21, 2012

Their caricatures of me aren’t me.

Language is powerful, and so, when we find ourselves with enemies, we use their own...

October 2012

October 28, 2012

Love and the mystery of men and women

I've been reading bell hook's book All About Love: New Visions. In it, she stresses the importance...

June 2012

June 19, 2012

What makes a good daddy–A guest post by Abe Kobylanski

I'm going to be publishing a couple of guest posts this week from some great...

May 2012

May 17, 2012

Fear or Love?

Growing up in a Fundamental Baptist high school, I heard some ridiculous arguments against feminism....

February 2012

February 14, 2012

Last Valentine’s Day…

Last Valentine's Day was hard. I had had plans, of course. I was going to...

October 2011

October 25, 2011

My deepest, darkest secret

As long-time readers of my blog (you folks are awesome!) already know, I've dedicated this...

October 22, 2011

Sometimes I believe Mark Driscoll.

I'm sorry my writing has been so sporadic lately. I've been busy with school and...

October 10, 2011

God loves Mark Driscoll (and everyone else)

God is love. God doesn't hate anyone. God poured his wrath on on Himself, because He loved...

September 2011

September 16, 2011

How Kittums, Smeagol, and Princess Buttercup taught me to love

Please read this article by Ben DeVries on Kurt Williams blog. It has a wonderful,...

July 2011

July 27, 2011

Tension redeemed: Pacifism

War, war, what is it good for? ...I don't really know. I'm opening up my...

January 2011

January 07, 2011

Sometimes when I think of Grammar, I think of Love.

"You complete me." "You're my missing puzzle piece." "I need you." "I'm nothing without you"...

October 2010

October 21, 2010

By his stripes

Christ was pierced for my transgressions. He was bruised for my sin... By his stripes...

August 2010

August 10, 2010

Love, in a word.

Today I was asked to define the word "love" in less than 25 words...