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December 2017

December 05, 2017

Who I Am and Choose To Be

Yesterday, I woke up to the news of the first live birth resulting from successful...

June 2016

June 01, 2016

When Trauma Comes to Visit (Write a New Song)

Right after Eli was born and all the trauma, a number of people advised me...

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April 14, 2013

underCover: “Lovesong”

About a year ago, my brilliant guitarist husband (Paul Koopman) and I worked out what...

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January 27, 2013

Dreams and Deliverance

For as long as I can remember, I've had one superpower in my dreams. I...

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October 01, 2012

The Tomb, The Womb, The Imposter, and The Beloved

God is in the kitchen. I know it if by no other fact than the...

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July 17, 2012

Light and Shadows

Sunday, July 15 2012: Teaching from Colossians 2:15-17, our pastor spoke on what he calls "God's...

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May 05, 2012

Trading Futures

Tomorrow we celebrate one whole year with my sweet Elijah David. I can hardly believe...

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November 16, 2011

When You Win the Wrong Lottery

It's been an eventful week for my friends...and a bit of a rough one for...

June 2011

June 21, 2011

Your Little Heart (new song)

I wrote this song for Elijah while he was still baking. I even mentioned it...

June 02, 2011

…But Now My Eyes Have Seen You

In the days immediately preceding Elijah's birth, I was convinced I'd been abandoned by God....

March 2011

March 02, 2011

Not That It Would Have Changed a Thing

Ok. I'm calling in the big guns. I just read this thing, "25 Things I...

January 2011

January 19, 2011

Endings and Beginnings, Interruptions and Delays

"There is nothing interchangeable about Christians. ...You and I, whether we are men or women,...

December 2010

December 30, 2010

Top Ten of Twenty(20)Ten(10)

Because it's the end of the year, and because everyone who's anyone who has nothing...

November 2010

November 15, 2010

Stronger Than You Think

It's taken me a while to get a live video worthy of posting, but thanks...

July 2010

July 08, 2010

The Accountability-From-Afar Factor

I've been trying to figure out an eloquent way of saying this for a while....

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April 21, 2010

Where AM I?! Oneders? Anyone?

I’m not precisely sure how I tumbled into what is an increasingly surreal current existence,...

October 2009

October 09, 2009

THE Blog: The Africa that Changed Me

This has been such a difficult blog to write. I want so much to share...

October 05, 2009

Missing [my other home] Gulu

I can't recall ever taking so long or expending so much energy and patience to...

June 2009

June 26, 2009

For Anyone Who’s Been Told to Be Something They’re Not

To anyone who's worked in an image-obsessed industry, tried to climb its ladders only to...

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