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 …
This was a striking book. Rapture Practice: My One-Way Ticket to Salvation by Aaron Hartzler, is a young adult (YA) memoir. That’s a fairly new genre, and there aren’t a ton of books in the genre yet, so I was really eager to read this book to see how the author structured the story and …
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 …
In my last post I told you about my experience at the Collegeville writer’s workshop this summer. The Collegeville Institute has just released some pretty cool data from all of its workshop participants this summer (mine wasn’t the only workshop being offered). Go here to check out their nifty pie charts. And hint: I’m the …
