Fellowship of Saints and Sinners

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The Year in Review

It has been a very full year here at this intersection between God and life, for anyone converted, unconverted or under conversion- and, I might add, the very first full year here!  Here are the highlights, looking back: In January: [...]

The World of Biblical Literalism: Men With Short Hair and Women Without Jewelry or Leadership Skills

Fellow saints and sinners have left some interesting comments during the last few days!  Someone with the online name of “Roodness” writes the following in response to my “Coffee with Jesus” lampoon of manliness pastor and cage fighter Mark Driscoll’s [...]

Women Body Builders: Why The Church Needs More of Them

What few of her parishioners know, or are only now beginning to discover, is that on one Sunday morning eight years ago Rev. Dr. Amy Richter of St. Anne’s Parish in Annapolis, Maryland took second in the Wisconsin State Fair’s [...]

Evangelicals on Sex: “High Bars” or “Hang-Ups”?

On most any afternoon a small ecumenical council of women convenes on the school playground: we include a converted Jew, backsliding Catholic, conservative evangelical, “spiritual but not religious” seeker and yours truly (who, if resorting to labels, would describe herself [...]

“Terminator and Jesus”

This video, which came out some years back, lends some humor to all the Internet buzz around “masculine” versus “feminine” Christianity.  I stumbled on it thanks to David Lumley, who posted it on friend Michael Frost’s FB page.  (Thanks, David!) [...]

The Heresy of Masculine Christianity: A Response to John Piper

The other day my son’s pre-K teacher commended him for continuing with his work when the other kids around him were goofing off.  My son had gone on dutifully coloring away with his crayons when he could have been lured [...]

Was Jesus a Macho Kind of Guy? Weird Sayings Continued…

“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth.  I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.  For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a [...]

Previous Posts

5 Tips for Facing Our Fears
Early this morning, I was just drifting off into the halcyon waters of deep sleep REM when my son woke me up to s

posted 10:36:06am Jun. 19, 2013 | read full post »

Small, Big World
It's good to be back here at this intersection between life and God. While we were away, my husband picked up a large coffee table book about space. (It's no wonder that he once nursed a d

posted 11:31:28am Jun. 18, 2013 | read full post »

Face Into the Wind
Greetings from Shelter Island, New York where I'm vacationing after the completion of the manuscript for Grace Sticks. (Next week I'll be back to the regular schedule of 3-5 posts a week.) "Kemah" is the name of my family's home here; the term is a Native American expression meaning "face into the

posted 12:39:48pm Jun. 14, 2013 | read full post »

Mental Health Break: "Dead Sea"
This week's feature comes from one of my favorite bands, The Lumineers, who recently performed in my city of Atlanta. "Dead Sea" is a song for every restless soul w

posted 10:05:49am Jun. 05, 2013 | read full post »

God of the Gaps: Survey Finds Americans Pray More in Disasters
It's another week of hermitic writing, I'm afraid, so you'll be hearing less from me as I push through edits from a second revision. But this morning I stumbled upon a report from Religion Today which I found interesting in light of my church small group's conversation yesterday around prayer and le

posted 10:57:37am Jun. 03, 2013 | read full post »


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