Both of my kiddos are now full-fledged elementary students, and with both starting new schools this year, it’s taken a month or so to feel like I have a sense of normalcy in new routines. These first few years will still involve lots of play, but as I consider what growing into their education looks like, I pray that these words from Proverbs 2:1-8 would be a guiding light…
Read MoreSeveral weeks ago I shared a link on Facebook from Hidden Brain, a podcast I often listen to during my commute. This episode, titled "When did Marriage Become so Hard?", presented some fascinating research about cultural shifts in our understanding of marriage throughout history as well as analysis of the current trend toward high divorce rates…
Read MoreIt 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...
Read MoreReposted from Cornerstone West LA. “So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, ‘If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.’”
Read MoreYesterday morning Phil shared a verse with me that he was mulling over from Romans 12...
Read MoreSilence. 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...
Read MoreMany 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...
Read MoreOne 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...
Read MoreAs 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...
Read MoreReposted from Cornerstone West LA. I thought a lot about the women of Cornerstone when I first read Half the Church by Carolyn Custis James. I thought about friends who set aside time to counsel other women, those who welcome foster children into their homes along with the schedule disruptions and paperwork and potential heartache, and women who study deeply the Word of God so that they may bring it to bear on our souls at conferences and events.
Read MoreReposted from Cornerstone West LA. The good news narrative of God’s engagement in this world should render Christians the most hopeful of all people. Not a gee-willickers kind of hope, but the sort of deep-in-the-gut, grounding hope that can even steady those around you.
Read MoreReposted from Cornerstone West LA. Last week I wrote about modesty and its relation to 1 Peter 3:3-4...
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