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2010-10-19T18:56:58+00:00

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Meltdown in Babytown

Last updated on: October 19, 2010 at 6:56 pm By Lisa

I had a bit of a meltdown two nights ago. I wasn’t sure if it was hormones (because they’re raging), emotions (because they’re utterly imbalanced right now), or circumstances (because they’re a bit out of whack this week as well). But I freaked out to a degree worthy of kindergarten. So what did I do? I called in the troops. I sent an email to all “My Baby Mama’s”…those friends of mine who have carried babies in their uterus’s (uteri?)... Read more

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2010-07-08T15:14:10+00:00

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The Accountability-From-Afar Factor

Last updated on: July 8, 2010 at 3:14 pm By Lisa

I’ve been trying to figure out an eloquent way of saying this for a while. But alas, I can’t wax poetic, because it’s still a thought in process. Either way, bear with me. While touring with Jennifer Knapp and Derek Webb, I watched and listened as a lot of “Christians” acted like the devil. Jennifer told the world through a couple of specially chosen interviews that she is – as many already assumed and/or suspected – gay. Thereafter, I watched... Read more

2010-04-21T18:41:58+00:00

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Where AM I?! Oneders? Anyone?

Last updated on: April 21, 2010 at 6:41 pm By Lisa

I’m not precisely sure how I tumbled into what is an increasingly surreal current existence, but yes: That IS me, Amy Courts…with my two idols-if-I’m-allowed-to-have-idols, Jennifer Knapp and Derek Webb, and Isaac & Taylor Hanson of Hanson (think ‘MmmBop’) fameage. Where AM I? Lenny: “How did we get here!?” Guy: “I led you here. For I am Spartacus.” Read more

2009-10-09T20:14:28+00:00

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THE Blog: The Africa that Changed Me

Last updated on: October 9, 2009 at 8:14 pm By Lisa

This has been such a difficult blog to write. I want so much to share everything about Gulu and the Acholi people, but feel a need to give you the brightest highlights and keep the rest to myself until it rises to the surface of circumstance. Not because it’s not worth sharing, but because I fear in sharing it without context, it might lose power. I don’t know, but I don’t yet want to take the risk. I am certain,... Read more

2009-10-05T20:42:20+00:00

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Missing [my other home] Gulu

Last updated on: October 5, 2009 at 8:42 pm By Lisa

I can’t recall ever taking so long or expending so much energy and patience to write a blog. But what I want to tell about Gulu – and more specifically about my experience and why I’ll hopefully never be the same – deserves more time, more editing, more energy. I want to give you the best of what they gave me, with as few errors or potholes of distraction as possible. 🙂 Or maybe I’m just an obsessively compulsive perfectionist.... Read more

2009-06-26T14:18:12+00:00

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

Last updated on: June 26, 2009 at 2:18 pm By Lisa

To anyone who’s worked in an image-obsessed industry, tried to climb its ladders only to learn on the third rung that in order to climb to the fourth or higher, you must change your tune, your angle, your brush, your personality, your face or your entire system of belief and being. To anyone who loves Jesus but has, by virtue of being human, disappointed Him and other human Jesus-lovers who believe one must look, act, dress, or think a certain... Read more

2009-06-22T21:18:58+00:00

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70 Miles, 98 Degrees, and a Pair of Leggings Later…

Last updated on: June 22, 2009 at 9:18 pm By Lisa

At a scorching ninety-eight degrees tempered by a maniacal 70% humidity (or so I guess), in which I drove from the south side of Nashville to the northwest side of Nashville, twice, sans air conditioning, and that only after having run five miles and sweated what I thought was every drop of hydration my body could squeeze out of itself and learning, instead, that there is in fact a deep well of reserved perspiration available for pore-leaking only during such... Read more

2009-01-20T17:40:34+00:00

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The Next Door, The Only Door

Last updated on: January 20, 2009 at 5:40 pm By Lisa

As I type this, I’m playing front desk receptionist at The Next Door in Nashville, a rehabilitation home for female ex-cons who’ve struggled with addictions. And through the application process, I learned a few things about the American penalty system. To be fair, I am a bit of a bleeding heart. But I’ve never really been one to feel sorry for convicts. Those who find themselves in situations whose consequences demand time in prison have earned that time, not my... Read more

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