Blog — Meredith Storrs

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

Reformation Sunday

This week we celebrated 500 years since the Protestant Reformation. As a nod to this particularly notable anniversary, a favorite (non-religious) podcast of mine, Stuff You Missed in History Class, shared an episode this week dedicated to three women who were influential in making the reformation happen.

WomanhoodMeredith StorrsNovember 3, 2017History, Protestant ReformationComment

Half of Cornerstone

Reposted 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.

Theology, Womanhood, Cornerstone West LAMeredith StorrsNovember 2, 2017booksComment

Spiritual Mamas and Midwives

I shared in my last post about my love for Sarah Bessey's Jesus Feminist. I get lost in how she weaves Biblical truth with personal narrative, how she feeds new life into stories I've skimmed before and gently questions social norms with the full, warm embrace of a crunchy granola mother hen. This far-off sister has impacted me greatly, so it's only fitting that the analogy in her book that compels me most is one of spiritual mamas and midwives.

WomanhoodMeredith StorrsSeptember 29, 2017motherhood, birth, friendship Comments

[Updated] The Feminists

Last summer I had the opportunity to speak on the topic of Biblical Womanhood at Cornerstone. It's a subject I particularly enjoy, but one I hadn't really explored from all ends of the spectrum. And by that I mean, I was very familiar with complimentarian doctrine, but had little clue how the other camp tackled the topic. I wasn't sold on Piper and Grudem's definition of feminine identity—arguing that Eve's punishment in the Fall reveals essential traits about women (shouldn't we instead look at the design and pre-sin characteristics of Eve for God's intention for women?)—so I started hunting around for other perspectives.

Womanhood, Most RecentMeredith StorrsSeptember 15, 2017Biblical Womanhood, Feminism, books Comment

A Camping Haiku

FamilyMeredith StorrsSeptember 8, 2017camping, poetry, Anderson ColumbusComment

What it Means for Me to Be a Christian and a Feminist (in Five Minutes or Less)

Last school year I was asked to share as part of a panel on Intersectional Feminism—that is, various aspects of our identity that intersect with our feminist views and produce unique and complex variants. I was specifically approached because many of my colleagues know that I am a fairly conservative (by their standards) Christian. I had about five minutes to share, and this is roughly what I said.

Womanhood, Most RecentMeredith StorrsSeptember 1, 2017intersectionality, FeminismComment

Such a Time as This

I first began blogging in college at a site I called "Esther." The pseudonym was inspired by the Biblical character of the same name, whose story I've been enamored with since early high school. It had all the drama and princess theming that appealed to me during that life stage—a tale of a young girl plucked from obscurity, who wins the heart of a king, then uses her position to rescue her people during a time of need. I adopted a verse from her narrative as a sort of personal theme: "But who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"

Life, Most RecentMeredith StorrsAugust 25, 2017Esther, diversityComment