The Lonesome Valley of Birthing this Holy Week
New life is coming into a sick and suffering world for me this Easter, just as it did that first Easter. As I sat reclined in the dim monitoring closet […]
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God Grew Bigger: A Review of This Is My Body
Hannah Shanks’ This is My Body came out the same week that I learned I was pregnant. I had already been planning to buy and read the book – the author […]
Our Bodies, Our Selves: Women’s Bodies in the Pulpit
I was just one year past the anniversary of my ordination and ten weeks pregnant with my first child when my partner and I sent out the invitations to the […]
Becoming a Grandparent
2 Timothy 1:5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also. […]
Keep Calm and Carry on with Hope
A little over a month ago a man named Thomas Eric Duncan was getting ready to leave Liberia for Dallas, Texas. Prior to departing he helped a neighbor get a […]
“Waters of Love” and “Birth Water”: New Poetry
Pastor and poet Sharon Benton sent these poems last month with the comment, “It’s the end of January, so baptism texts may be over…” And yet the themes of void, […]
