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These are the core ideas of what I have learned in my first totally full semester of studying social work, and how that relates to my degree studying theology. 1. … Continue reading Things I Have Learned

All I have to go on for this is my own experience, my own story that is still being scratched across history as we speak, bleating and wailing and ripping … Continue reading Waiting Part 2: Fear and Pain and Rebuilding the Farmhouse

Prologue: I’m not very good at waiting. When I want something it burns and itches and scratches on my mind: an infection on my psyche. I have to give in, … Continue reading Waiting–Part I: Denial

So, I’ve been incredibly frustrated with my Seminary experience for a number of reasons. I won’t go into that much more right at this moment, other than to say a … Continue reading Something Happened on the Way Home

As I scroll through my facebook newsfeed and am inundated with a sea of red equal signs, all I can think about is that one scene in The Lion King, … Continue reading It’s Past Time

Some things about me that are important going forward: I am a straight, white, married, woman in my mid-twenties. I was raised in a middle class, urban, democratic, feminist household. … Continue reading Oh, you know, just a little late night trip down the feminist highway

Dear child, Though you have barely been imagined, though you have not yet been yearned for and you don’t have a star in the sky I point to and call … Continue reading A Letter to My Future Sons

“Since when have things been easy?” My dad said this to my mom while she ferociously unloaded the dishwasher. It’s been months of angry housework. The rest of us stayed … Continue reading A Year in Slow Motion

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” — Mahatma Ghandi Because ministry is a competition Who can have the craziest, … Continue reading Why I Love Jesus but Hate Seminary

I hate that phrase and phrases like it. As if our emotions bear weight on us, tear at us physically. I have always struggled with that notion, finding it especially … Continue reading And with a heavy heart…

I can feel my body shutting down. Exhaustion is closing in, and I am struggling to stay awake. In two hours I will wake up itchy with worry.  It will … Continue reading Being Quiet