Left and right people are sharing resources for white people to educate themselves about racism and anti-racism. Perhaps the internet doesn’t need my two cents, but I love sharing resources and round-ups and trying to make information accessible, so I wanted to use my small platform to point you in Read more…
I’ve been trying to write for Sojourners for a long, long time and I’m thrilled I got to write this piece for them about fasting, lent, and the sort of fast God desires. * Instead of thinking what we can go without for 40 days that hurts just enough to Read more…
Sharing a deeply personal essay over at Fathom Mag about fertility, infertility, and the loss of my father last November. __________________________________________ “I can’t fathom how a life with children would work out for us, mostly because in every other aspect of life I can’t know what the future holds. But Read more…
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 the US one of my deepest joys was going for Read more…
“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. It is just a few miles up the road from Read more…
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 started being exposed to politics, where I first heard politicians Read more…
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 – the special kind of culture shock that happens when you’re Read more…
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 it is also not as simple or straightforward as it Read more…
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 I feel were structural breakdowns that led to my chronic Read more…
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 former missions organization highlighting what I felt were institutional failures Read more…