If you grew up in church, you probably heard the Parable of the Sower about a thousand times. I’ve heard it at least that many. It’s especially popular in children’s…
Way back when… in the days before COVID-19, we were in a season called Lent. At the time, I was sharing a brief Lent devotion on my personal social media…
I admit to not having followed this story closely, so I’m only going to write about this in a general sense. But as I understand it, a worship leader from…
Several years ago I sat down with a prominent male pastor in my community, who also happened to be a former seminary professor of mine. I wanted to get his…
Our church meets in a school. Monday through Friday students show up with back packs full of books to learn about history, music, science, math, art, literature, writing, and foreign…
There are experiences that I have as a woman in ministry that my male colleagues don’t. Some are obvious, others are subtle. I was recently at a worship service that…
There has been a blog post making its way around the internet about men preferring debt-free virgins without tattoos. I’m not going to link to it, because I see no…
I was sitting towards the back of a large lecture hall in a seminary class on Paul. The professor stood at the front of the class and said, “I understand…
Author and speaker Sarah Bessey started a twitter hashtag called #55ThingsOnlyChristianWomenHear. Twitter users tweeted quotes spoken to Christian women, and used the hashtag to group them all together. There were hundreds…
I’m happy to be guest posting over at Tim Fall’s blog today. Recently a reporter noted that vice president Mike Pence never dines with women alone, nor does he attend…