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November 05, 2018

Choose Life or Choose Republicans. You Can’t Have Both.

This Tuesday, you cannot vote for Republicans AND vote “for Life.” Republican policies and rhetoric...

February 2018

February 13, 2018

Six Ways To Be Love in an Economy of Hate

There is a thing I say to myself and to others, six words of truth...

December 2017

December 13, 2017

Good Riddance, Evangelicalism.

There was a long stretch there when I spoke directly to evangelicals about the moral...

December 12, 2017

An Open Letter To Keaton Jones and the Watching World

On December 9th, Jamie O'Grady tweeted a heartbreaking video of Kimberly Jones’s son, middle schooler Keaton...

December 08, 2017

Back When We Had Slaves, Unity, and Greatness

“I think [America] was great at the time when families were united — even though...

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 12, 2016

Mass Violence in America: This Is Who We Are and Choose To Be

It's hard to watch a president give his 900th after-mass-shooting speech about the need for...

December 2015

December 09, 2015

Franklin Graham, Amygdalas, and the Futility of Fighting with Fear

I made the disastrous mistake of accidentally reading today's Islamophobic diatribe from Franklin Graham (how...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

God, The Gays, And For the Love of All That’s Holy, Context

There’s a thought that’s been marinating in my brain for a while. I haven’t made...

October 21, 2015

Mid-October Life Assessment: 14 Lessons I’ve Learned So Far or “Don’t Streak, Be True, Prioritize Passions, Vaccinate Your Kids, Do Scary Stuff, Delete Meanies, and More”

In the middle of the night last night, I was awake and figured I might...

October 17, 2015

The Sinners Prayer, Hell-Bound Babies, and How Sin Saved Me

Continuing to process Cindy Brandt's 'Raising Children Un-Fundamentalist' series, in particular one guest post about...

June 2015

June 03, 2015

Dear Trans* Friends

Dear Trans* Friends, I mean that: you are dear. As in, beloved. Yesterday, after a...

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February 23, 2014

Marriage 101: It Sucks / Happy Anniversary

You called me out upon the water. The great unknown, where feet may fail…** There...

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November 10, 2013

PS: A Post-Script to My Open Letter to Birthing Moms

PS: A Post-Script to My Open Letter to Birthing Moms >> Please keep rejoicing and...

April 2013

April 14, 2013

underCover: “Lovesong”

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

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,...

January 08, 2011

on impending motherhood

He responds to my touch. I can lay my hand over my belly, and he'll...

April 2010

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...

January 2009

January 20, 2009

The Next Door, The Only Door

As I type this, I’m playing front desk receptionist at The Next Door in Nashville,...

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