“Ritual Acts”, an Excerpt from “Meaning in the Moment”
Ritual Acts Our bodies are not passive in rituals; they are active, and that increases the transforming power of rituals. In my sabbatical-ending ritual, I used physical things in a smaller, manageable...
View ArticleExcerpt from “Nice Churchy Patriarchy: Reclaiming Women’s Humanity from...
“When the Anonymous Disciple Is a Man:” An Excerpt from “Nice Churchy Patriarchy: Reclaiming Women’s Humanity from Evangelicalism” When I took my first preaching class in seminary, one of our main...
View ArticleSecretary-General’s Climate Ambition Summit Previewed Growing Impatience of...
On September 17, I joined several of my sisters with United Women in Faith at the March to End Fossil Fuels. We hailed from Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and all over New York, where our organization is...
View ArticleRoe v. Wade Anniversary
On January 22, 1973, the US Supreme Court decided in Roe v. Wade that a mother has the legal right to end her pregnancy up until the point at which the fetus can live outside of her womb. We invite you...
View ArticleIn Between A Rock Is A Hard Place
I love the Psalms because the conversations shared are raw, uncensored, uplifting, and reassuring. They model the brutal honesty we can boldly and safely have in our relationship with a loving God....
View ArticleAn Unforgiving Christian, excerpt from “Forgiveness after Trauma”
The summer I turned nineteen, I felt a need to reckon with someone who had both harmed me deeply and done much good in my life. I decided to set new boundaries with this person. Predictably, when I set...
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Tears of Gold: Portraits of Yazidi, Rohingya, and Nigerian Women, an Excerpt
Content taken from Tears of Gold by Hannah Rose Thomas, ©2024. Used by permission of Plough Books. Excerpt from the Foreword One of Hannah’s aims is to capture not only the courage and stoicism of the...
View ArticleA Second Chance Should Be Our First Choice with Prison Reform
Editor’s Note: This piece was first published by NewsOne on March 6, 2024. Republished here with permission. August 2024 will mark two years since my daughter, Michelle was released from prison. Even...
View Article“Isolated and Othered”, Adaptation from “Beyond Ethnic Loneliness”
Adapted from Chapter 4, “Isolated and Othered” “Pick a color,” she said. “Write down your color.” I was at a writers’ workshop in Minnesota, and this was our prompt. I wrote down “pink.” No one else...
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“For Love of the Broken Body: A Spiritual Memoir” Excerpt
Being a Sister is a form of radical discipleship of Jesus Christ, I figure. It is how I can live in a committed intentional community long-term with like-minded prayerful, Gospel-centered women; women...
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