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I came across the following comment written by mariakirby (screen name), in response to a post called “Summer Theology” on The Jesus Manifesto website. I don’t know mariakirby, but she paints such beautiful word pictures of her understanding of the sovereignty of God that I wanted to share…   I’ve had similar thoughts about the…

I love it when great posts lead to equally great comments. Here’s another tattoo story written in response to Diane’s “Beautiful Tattoo” post yesterday… Who I Am and What I Have: Andrea’s Tattoo Story I also have a tattoo but mine is not to remind me that I’m luminous and beautiful. Instead, it reminds me…

I “met” Diane first through her writing at the Burnside Writer’s Blog and later during a long and surprisingly deep chat on Facebook. I hope to meet her in person one day, but for now I am honored to share her brave story…  THE STORY OF MY BEAUTIFUL TATTOO by Diane Nienhuis I grew up…

“Newsman Walter Cronkite, who died at the age of 92, was so thoroughly and uniquely linked with the word “trust” that it is tempting to say that the word should be buried with him. In the generation since he left the anchor desk at the CBS Evening News, there have been other public figures who…

A frequent commenter here on the blog who goes by the name Credis Dervish posted the following four lines across two comments yesterday in response to my Submit: The New S-Word post. Credis is a self-described anti-theist, a piece of information I share only to provide a bit of context for the comment. She writes: don’t…

So, I seem to have really stepped in it with my “What Does it Mean to be a Christian Woman” post on Scot McKnight’s Jesus Creed blog earlier this week. It appears that my initial experience with the Bible and the “women submit to your husbands” scripture raised some questions that had been both beaten…

This is a guest posts from Dr. Suzan Johnson-Cook, Author, Speaker, Senior Pastor at the Bronx Christian Fellowship Church in New York and Founder of Wall Street Wednesdays, a mid-week service that has been held for more than a decade in the heart of the New York’s Financial district More recently she initiated a mid-ween service in Washington D.C.,…

Scot asked me to expand upon an email conversation we had last week regarding what it was like for me to approach the multitude of teachings regarding Christian womanhood for the first time as an adult convert to the faith. You can check it out here.  I am curious to see how women in and outside…

Came across the following thought-provoking definition of the nature of the Bible in an online text written by one of my professors.  “The Bible is the record of…Divine breakthroughs into human history. ‘God’s search for man,’ it is described, rather than being our search for God. Unlike most religious literature, it is not chiefly a collection…

It is starting to really hit me. I wrote a book and it comes out in April. Sure, there are things to do between now and then, but the train is rolling and I am on it. The writing part was challenging…and wonderful. A friend asked recently if it was cathartic and – although I…
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