When I was in 6th grade my small group leader at the time took me to Barnes and Noble and let me pick out my very first prayer journal. It was red and velvet and felt like the most important thing I owned at the time.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about how we talk about other people (myself included). How we can gossip and be incredibly cruel to one another. Or maybe even worse, how we can (sometimes even unintentionally, but we do it) think of ourselves as better than other people…
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The month of March was a difficult month to say the least. Literally on March 1st, I received a call that my aunt had passed away quite unexpectedly. And while we were dealing with the many details of this death…
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I’ve struggled with the Old Testament for a long time. I never understood the passages where it seems like God is behind the killing of many people. Or when the psalmists would talk about getting revenge on their enemies…
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As a doula, my number one goal is to empower women. In the birthing room, I do not speak for them, I do not make decisions for them. If I’ve done my job well, both mother and partner are educated and prepared beforehand to ask questions, to know what could happen and to make decisions with confidence.
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I have always been someone who questions my purpose.Most of the time, whether it was a volunteer position or a job, I would start to question what I was doing and start looking for something new and what I thought was “better” a little before I had been there 2 years. I felt that I wasn’t doing “enough.”
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Community is one of those words that when you hear it you think of something dreamy – like a group of people eating a meal and drinking wine together, where everyone is such good friends and is vulnerable but also funny and everyone is happy about their community all the time.
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For most of my young adult life, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I wandered around from opportunity to opportunity knowing it wasn’t quite what I wanted.
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I’ve been struggling this past week with what happened in Charlottesville for many reasons.To start, I am a privileged white person – someone who grew up in a wealthy and primarily white conservative community.
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I remember the first time I realized there was prejudice against female leadership in the church.I was a student leader my senior year in the youth group I grew up in – a conservative Baptist church.
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