Better Together
When I began seminary, my husband was finishing, so the question du jour was, “Would you ever work together?” To which I responded with a resounding, “NO!” We’re too competitive, too insecure, […]
Miles to Go
A sermon on Lamentations 1:1-12 and John 11:17-37: Though it is in our lectionary, our Lamentations text – this prayer of pain and petition – is not something we hear […]
Being Single, Being Me
I began seminary with several single classmates, but our number was significantly reduced over the three years we spent there. By senior year, it seemed like a mass headlong rush to the […]
There’s No Crying in Baseball
It’s happened too often to write it off as a fluke. There was that one time in the pulpit, and again the Sunday after Hurricane Katrina hit. At the last […]
In it for the long haul
We’ve been in our home for a year now. In actuality, it’s been almost two years, but that first year, this didn’t feel like our home. We were renting. Now […]
The Morning She Was Betrayed
It was 8:35 when my alarm clock betrayed me. And I only knew of his defiance because the phone rang. Twice. But I rolled over insisting that this, too, was […]
On the Seventh Day, God Napped
And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done. So God […]
This Month: Visual Art and Poetry
For this, our inaugural feature, we bring you two very different pieces, “On Women and Children and Poverty,” a visual piece by Suzanne Stovall Vinson, and “&,” a poem by […]
A Whole Person
Last night as we lay in bed, my husband Simon, who is a student at the college where I am the chaplain, mentioned that a fellow classmate had asked to “friend” him […]
