This week I’ve been watching #FFWgr tweets. The Festival of Faith and Writing is a Christian writers’ conference that happens every two years. In 2014, I watched the tweets, too. At that point, I’d been trying to be a Christian blogger for at least two years. I blogged three times a week, had published several …
Something is missing from the nativity scene: midwives. It’s hard for me to believe that Mary gave birth with the sole help of Joseph. Most likely, there were a couple of women helping. Maybe the innkeeper’s wife or daughter, or maybe a compassionate woman staying at the inn. History is quiet on the matter, but …
This week my Secret Santa at work gave me a bottle of Coke Zero. I don’t think he realized that the name on the back of the bottle was Scrooge. I laughed when I saw it, but then I internally nodded my head. Scrooge might be a good word to describe me right now. Sixteen …
Thank you to everyone who responded in kind on the blog or on Facebook to my recent faith crisis post. Continuing with the topic of faith crises, I’ve been thinking a lot about how people of faith who don’t “fit the mold” are treated. I was listening to the Liturgists podcast recently and Christian author …
A close friend recently asked me why I’m going through a faith crisis now, of all times. I mean, it would be expected for me to have had a faith crisis 15 years ago when my brother died, or 12 years ago when my parents split up, or maybe when I was younger and still …
