When Personal Grief and Public Ministry Collide
I was sitting at one end of my church’s Fellowship Hall, surrounded by a pile of opened gifts and resting a plate laden with cake on my swollen, pregnant belly. […]
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Joining the Divorced Pastors’ Club
On a Sunday morning in early 2016, I sat with a half a dozen kids in front of our altar for a children’s time, teaching them how to say my […]
Faith in the Flesh
The first time I had sex outside of marriage, I was 35. I’m honestly not sure how I managed to grow up thinking that I had to save myself for […]
Even the Sparrow
“Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my […]
The Liturgy of the Mandarin Orange: A Divorce Ceremony
The mandarin was Aurelia’s idea. The rest of the rituals had been pre-planned by me, but her spontaneity with the fruit helped. Let me explain. We were throwing a funeral […]
Dwell with Me in Darkness
I just want to know, God. When you spoke about binding up the broken-hearted, right there between good news for the poor and release for the captives, who did you […]
My Marriage Isn’t Biblical, Thank God
One of my namesakes is a woman who spent decades trapped in a miserable marriage. Her story is one of the reasons I often refer to the 1950’s as “the […]
Sleeping to One Side
I sleep alone in my queen-size bed and I’ve slept alone in this bed for almost two years. You’d think that after two years, I’d sleep sprawled in the middle […]
Never a Fatherless Child
This Father’s Day will be the first on which my son’s father is no longer my husband. He left me for another woman earlier this year, and though he has […]
Forbidden love
I’m in love! Oh, don’t get too excited. I’m not in love with anyone I’ve actually met. . .or am likely to meet. This love is a secret love, which […]
