Seven years ago, in 2018, I wrote one of my most popular blog posts — a blog about whether or not “masturbation is a sin.” That piece was honest, imperfect, and deeply personal. I wrote it because I genuinely wanted to know if masturbating, as a Christian, was “wrong,” and I was tired of reading … Continue reading A Theology of Self-Pleasure: Exploring Masturbation, Desire and Faithful Embodiment
Good Friday is a good day to talk about grief. (Apologies if this post feels disjointed and piecemeal and less edited and streamlined than usual. I just wanted to get it out and post it before Good Friday ends, and I’m hungry and want to go roast some chicken.) Ever since I turned 37 in … Continue reading Funeralizing Singleness and Good Grief on a Good Friday
Introvert that I am, I was made for this. I had an employer who continued to pay me as I worked from home. I had Wi-Fi. I have no children. A friend shared his Netflix password. I was #blessed.
Anxiety soon descended. Continue reading “Alone” — My Piece for the New York Times
View this post on Instagram Being in a loving, long term relationship, having babies… they're all miracles that are so commonplace and easily entered into for most people that most take them for granted. 💜 I was talking about this with @vickitysquare this past weekend. As a single, childless woman I sit outside of both … Continue reading The Miracles We Take For Granted
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us. — James Truslow Adams My mother attended a funeral recently for a long-standing member of the church in which I grew … Continue reading Kobe, King, Cosby: If You Live Long Enough, You Too Will Have a Complicated Legacy
