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Performance Reviews My Children Give Me

One of the most frustrating parts of being a kid ...

Is Church Worth Crying Over?

A lot of churches are struggling right now. In addition ...

Yummy vs Yucky is not the same as Good vs Bad

As I’ve talked to other parents going through various kinds ...

Affirming is an Action Word

As my faith shifted and changed, I found myself in ...

Your Kids are Privilege Shelters

When you have kids, you want to give them the ...

Go to hell…jk, please don’t…jk, there’s no hell…jk jk jk patriarchy, ugh.

In the faith system I came from, not wanting sinners ...

Words of Life

We’ve really not done right by the Bible, y’all. Here’s ...

Authority vs. Knowledge

When I was a kid, I thought that my parents ...

Sounds like not-a-me-problem

When I was younger, in my certainty-loving, ultra-controlled churches, there ...

A New Year

Thirty-eight is just old enough to really get into some healing. To know what I mean when I say "perfectionism is killing you." If I'd ...

Living With Ants

This is the second in a multi-part series in which ...

Birding in Winter

This is the first in a multi-part series in which ...

The Smell of Drowning

For most of my childhood we lived near water—either the ...

“I’ll cut you up in little pieces and hide you in the walls.”

One night in college, a group of girls in my ...

Pro-Boob Propaganda

 Though he died when I was only 18, Billy Wilder ...

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