Journalist & Writer
Performance Reviews My Children Give Me
One of the most frustrating parts of being a kid ...
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Bekah Stolhandske McNeel
Is Church Worth Crying Over?
A lot of churches are struggling right now. In addition ...
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Bekah Stolhandske McNeel
Yummy vs Yucky is not the same as Good vs Bad
As I’ve talked to other parents going through various kinds ...
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Bekah Stolhandske McNeel
Talking Politics at the Dinner Table
During the 2020 campaign season, Moira joined me on a ...
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Bekah Stolhandske McNeel
Affirming is an Action Word
As my faith shifted and changed, I found myself in ...
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Bekah Stolhandske McNeel
Your Kids are Privilege Shelters
When you have kids, you want to give them the ...
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Bekah Stolhandske McNeel
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 ...
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Bekah Stolhandske McNeel
Words of Life
We’ve really not done right by the Bible, y’all. Here’s ...
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Bekah Stolhandske McNeel
Authority vs. Knowledge
When I was a kid, I thought that my parents ...
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Bekah Stolhandske McNeel
Sounds like not-a-me-problem
When I was younger, in my certainty-loving, ultra-controlled churches, there ...
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Bekah Stolhandske McNeel
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 ...
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Bekah Stolhandske McNeel
Living With Ants
This is the second in a multi-part series in which ...
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Bekah Stolhandske McNeel
Birding in Winter
This is the first in a multi-part series in which ...
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Bekah Stolhandske McNeel
The Smell of Drowning
For most of my childhood we lived near water—either the ...
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Bekah Stolhandske McNeel
“I’ll cut you up in little pieces and hide you in the walls.”
One night in college, a group of girls in my ...
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Bekah Stolhandske McNeel
Pro-Boob Propaganda
Though he died when I was only 18, Billy Wilder ...
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