Making Peace With My Broken Body
I’m a runner. Well, I used to be. Maybe I still am, but it doesn’t feel like it so much anymore. I’ve been running since college, I kept at it in my years overseas, and whenever I was back in Read more…
Don’t Look Away
“People who are free are also free to look away and their willingness to do so never fails to astound me.” Malika Oufkir I remember reading in a book a few years ago about a town in Germany called Weimar. Read more…
Are We Complicit if Christian Republicans Lied to Us? – A Post for The Salt Collective
Excited to be sharing over at The Salt Collective today about what I learned about politics at Liberty University, seeing the movie Vice, and laying out some facts and big questions about Christian responsibility and complicity. “Liberty is where I Read more…
Coming Back from Narnia : What Re-Entry Feels Like – A Post for A Life Overseas
I’m very happy to be sharing over at A Life Overseas blog about what it’s like returning to live in my home country after more than 6 years away. ♦ It’s hard being back. They call it re-entry shock – Read more…
Three Reasons to Shop Ethically … and Four Reasons Not To – A Guest Post on Scraping Raisins
Excited to be sharing today over at Scraping Raisins about a subject I love and also wrestle with – shopping ethically. There are good reasons to (it doesn’t support companies that rely on slavery and oppression of poor people), but Read more…
Missons Organizations Have Cracks [Part 4] – Do I Regret Going?
This is the fourth and final installment in the miniseries called “Missions Organizations Have Cracks.” For more context please see part 1 where I share a truncated version of a letter I wrote to my former missions organization detailing what Read more…
Missions Organizations Have Cracks [Part 3]: Are We Asking the Right Questions?
This is Part 3 of the miniseries Missions Organizations Have Cracks. To frame the context of this post a bit better feel free to check out Part 1 where I share the gist of a letter I wrote to my Read more…
Missions Organizations Have Cracks [Part 2] – My Response to Their Response
A few months ago, I wrote a letter to the mission’s organization I was overseas with for more than 6 years. This letter, which you can read the gist of here, detailed what I felt were institutional failures that led Read more…
For My Immigrant Husband & Refugee Friends, the Damage is Already Done – A Post on The Salt Collective
I’m very excited to be sharing over at The Salt Collective today! ♦ Until recently, we at least thought we could hold our breaths until citizenship. And then, under the new administration, there’s been an unprecedented spike of “denaturalization’s” – Read more…
Missions Organizations Have Cracks: Highlights from One Who Survived the Fall. (Part 1)
A few months ago I wrote a letter to the missions organization that I was with for just under 10 years, and overseas for just over 6. What you have below is a slightly modified and truncated version of the Read more…