Blog — Meredith Storrs

Damsel in Distress

It is no secret that as a young girl, I was the poster child for traditional, American femininity. My barbies had divine romances that ended in marriage. My favorite dress up dramatization was wedding. I followed the narratives of Belle and Jasmine and Ariel with an unnatural hunger, concocting for myself imaginative, desperate situations that would always end in dramatic rescue. In high school, I framed Disney movie stills and artwork above my bed. I dreamed that one day my prince would come...

Theology, Womanhood, Most RecentMeredith StorrsApril 6, 2018Exodus, princesses, Moses, Bible study, Biblical WomanhoodComment

I Can Do It Myself

"I can do it myself," replies the small boy I carried in my belly not four, short years ago. And he does—struggling at awkward angles to force his head through, wiggling squishy hands and toes each into their proper sleeve. What once was my job is now his, and I watch him closely, almost scientifically. I want to mark these movements in my memory's timeline. A baby, but now a boy...

Life, Most RecentMeredith StorrsMarch 22, 2018Anderson Columbus, growing upComment

Being a City Plant

Yesterday morning Phil shared a verse with me that he was mulling over from Romans 12...

Theology, Most Recent, City LoveMeredith StorrsMarch 9, 2018Romans, plants, trials Comments

On Liking People

I recently picked up one of Jen Hatmaker's audiobooks to listen to during my commute. For the Love is the second most recent in a slew of books written by this popular blogger. I keep hearing her mentioned and lauded around on social media. Then, she got caught up in a controversy about her "stance" on a certain theological issue, which really piqued my interest...

Life, Most RecentMeredith StorrsFebruary 20, 2018books, Community Comments

Let the Women Speak

Silence. It is an unfortunate reality of digging through the records of women past. As we try to shed our 21st century perspective to listen to and understand what it was like to be a woman in ancient Israel, Greece, or Rome, we are confronted with one of the great tragedies of patriarchy. There is but a small body of scripture devoted to the words and stories of women because for so many generations of our world's history, these voices were largely considered unimportant...

Theology, Most Recent, WomanhoodMeredith StorrsFebruary 13, 2018Rachel, Genesis, Biblical Womanhood, Bible studyComment

Is Money Your Master?

Reposted from Cornerstone West LA. We are a camping family. So periodically we pack down the car with our tent and sleeping bags and head out into the middle of nowhere to enjoy God’s creation. No screens and no wifi, instead there is hiking and a lot of dirt and sweat and sore muscles. At the end of each day, after the kids have exhausted themselves and are tucked in for the night, we enjoy a few meditative moments watching the campfire flames flicker in the dark. Fire is a great servant, but a terrible master...

Cornerstone West LA, Life, Most RecentMeredith StorrsFebruary 8, 2018money, campingComment

Telling the Stories of Women in the Word

Many Bible studies that focus on female characters in the Old or New Testament are centered around determining if she is an example to follow or a cautionary tale. But when we ask of our Dorothy, "Are you a good witch or a bad witch?", we miss the overarching theme of the story, which is always first about God and only secondarily (if at all) about the major players...

Theology, Womanhood, Most RecentMeredith StorrsFebruary 6, 2018Judges, Bible study, Biblical Womanhood Comment

The Maker Movement and Peace

One of the gifts of working in education is that I am privy to the latest ideas, research, and trends in how we cultivate young minds. I love learning, and as a parent, I am also quite personally invested in the way our society is shaping the next generation...

Theology, Most RecentMeredith StorrsJanuary 30, 2018Makers, Peace, sewing, education, Ephesians, beatitudesComment

Resolved: For a Very Boring 2018

New Year's Resolutions may be a bit passé, but I do enjoy taking a moment at the turn of a year to reflect back on where I've come from and think about plans for what's next. Many friends walked with us on the rocky road to home ownership in 2017, which was in fact one of our goals for the year. As we skidded into the finish line in early December, our excitement with God's provision did not come without a heavy dose of exhaustion...

Family, Most Recent, City LoveMeredith StorrsJanuary 12, 2018New Year's Resolutions, Multi-ethnic church, PsalmsComment

Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room, A Christmas Meditation

Eloise's Christmas pajamas announce gleefully, "Joy to the World!" and I hum the rest of the song to myself...

Family, Worship, Most RecentMeredith StorrsDecember 25, 2017Christmas, Eloïse Opal, joyComment

An Ode to a Place, Corinth Avenue in Retrospect

We spent the majority of November this year packing boxes. Our clothes, the kids' toys, the kitchen, those oddities we shoe-horned into the top of the closet and forgot were there—it all went into a box to prepare for us to move into our first house...

Family, Most Recent, City LoveMeredith StorrsDecember 22, 2017Corinth Avenue, Community, wedding Comment

The Feminine Imago Dei

As I continue to dig into what Biblical womanhood really means, I am struck by some of the more subtle feminine images that are sprinkled throughout God's Word. While not typically the focus of our early Bible education, there is actually much to be gleaned about the identity of women from the stories of scripture...

Theology, Womanhood, Most Recent, PopularMeredith StorrsNovember 17, 2017books, Genesis, Isaiah, birth, Imago Dei Comments