If we could all work out our salvation openly, publicly, together - wouldn't that change 'the church' from the inside out? To be honest. To wrestle in the open with our oh so human issues. To be received and still loved. Wouldn't more people have 'oil in their lamps' on the day our groom returns? Wouldn't more people truly gather in the name of Jesus, and not self?
I love that you started on Xanga. I loved it. Did you know Jacob and Rachel Denhollander met on there? This is the first format I’ve found that allows long-form writing AND commenting like Xanga did.
Yes, I have felt the same about the interior life, and the question of how writing forms us! I'm teaching a class on writing as a response to life right now, and it is so beautiful to see the movement in the way people see the world through their own writing.
Thank you for this!! Love this!! I have just started writing and honestly, I find that it’s probably way more therapeutic for me, working through my own faith and what God is speaking to me, than it is for anyone one else!
You are a consistently thoughtful writer who has wrestled with many of the same things as I have. I’m grateful to be a witness to your writing and your life. I thank you for your words and your work.
Thank you! I knew few writers who engage with the world so thoughtfully, authentically, and curiously, who are as comfortable saying “this is true” as “I was wrong,” who make it so safe and beautiful to be a messy work in progress, as you. I’m grateful for you sharing this space with us for all these years!
Love this—especially drawn to the comment about interior life blooming and reawakening. Started A Curious Faith just last week, and can safely say it will be finished in 3 sittings (then re-read again and again with time for notes, remarks, and highlights). To read words and thoughts that are in the quiet places of my soul has been so astonishing in a “I’m not alone” kind of way.
I love this with all my heart. I have been reading your words for years and years and been ever grateful for the effort and wrestling it takes to get them to us. So this is me just saying thank YOU. 💗💗💗
I cannot fathom the work you’ve been doing outside of this class (that has stretched me on its own), but also I am so excited that you are finding your place and work to do. I’ve been thinking through some of the same things with far less behind the scenes work. Thanks for this offering.
If we could all work out our salvation openly, publicly, together - wouldn't that change 'the church' from the inside out? To be honest. To wrestle in the open with our oh so human issues. To be received and still loved. Wouldn't more people have 'oil in their lamps' on the day our groom returns? Wouldn't more people truly gather in the name of Jesus, and not self?
Wow, Xanga. What a throwback. I would kill to read your Xanga posts. I would die of embarrassment reading mine.
I love that you started on Xanga. I loved it. Did you know Jacob and Rachel Denhollander met on there? This is the first format I’ve found that allows long-form writing AND commenting like Xanga did.
Yes, I have felt the same about the interior life, and the question of how writing forms us! I'm teaching a class on writing as a response to life right now, and it is so beautiful to see the movement in the way people see the world through their own writing.
I am new to yours, and love it. Thank you.
Thank you for this!! Love this!! I have just started writing and honestly, I find that it’s probably way more therapeutic for me, working through my own faith and what God is speaking to me, than it is for anyone one else!
Love your writing, thank you for sharing your gifts and how much writing means to you. Very inspiring!
You are a consistently thoughtful writer who has wrestled with many of the same things as I have. I’m grateful to be a witness to your writing and your life. I thank you for your words and your work.
Thank you! I knew few writers who engage with the world so thoughtfully, authentically, and curiously, who are as comfortable saying “this is true” as “I was wrong,” who make it so safe and beautiful to be a messy work in progress, as you. I’m grateful for you sharing this space with us for all these years!
Love this—especially drawn to the comment about interior life blooming and reawakening. Started A Curious Faith just last week, and can safely say it will be finished in 3 sittings (then re-read again and again with time for notes, remarks, and highlights). To read words and thoughts that are in the quiet places of my soul has been so astonishing in a “I’m not alone” kind of way.
I love this with all my heart. I have been reading your words for years and years and been ever grateful for the effort and wrestling it takes to get them to us. So this is me just saying thank YOU. 💗💗💗
No person has formed the way I write and think of the past six or so years, so thank you too for continuing on this endeavor :)
I cannot fathom the work you’ve been doing outside of this class (that has stretched me on its own), but also I am so excited that you are finding your place and work to do. I’ve been thinking through some of the same things with far less behind the scenes work. Thanks for this offering.