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Thrilled to host author Carolyn Custis James today for an interview on her important new book Malestrom: Manhood Swept into the Currents of a Changing World. Buckle up and prepare to dive deep as Carolyn discusses God’s intentions for men and for women. *** Once in seminary, I proudly showed a male professor my new […]

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Hey friends: I’m in the middle of a new website rollout. And in the middle of all those digital details, I had the pleasure of posting on my friend Cara Meredith’s blog. She’s a fellow Redbud Writer, and she’s been featuring a lovely little series on rituals, the grooves that give our lives meaning. Hope […]

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That is a question for the ages, isn’t it?  Fortunately, my friend Dr. Natalie Wilson Eastman, from the Redbud Writers’ Guild, has written an in-depth but practical guide to biblical interpretation. For those of us who don’t have a doctorate, but long to know how to interpret what the Bible says on any given subject, […]

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The family members of those murdered at Mother Emanuel popped up on my TV screen, speaking words of forgiveness to Dylan Roof. And I sat in my comfortable blue chair, tears streaming down my face. In the words of a Washington Post article: “The killer was welcomed by the ones he murdered, and then forgiven […]

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Regular blog reader? Consider sharing this post I wrote for Christianity Today on your social networks. And let’s encourage everyone to enter their grief, airing their feelings that they might further reveal their faith. In 2013, Sheryl Sandberg wrote her first book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, selling over a million copies […]

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I haven’t been regularly blogging for months, but recent events have opened a vein of some kind, there is blood still pulsing underneath the grief of the last 3 1/2 weeks, and as author Richard Foster has said, “When you write you must bleed.” We are a messy pair right now, my husband and I, […]

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Have you ever had one of those seasons when you are overwhelmed at the hurt and loss around you? More pointedly—at the daggers of pain that seem aimed at your own heart—the kind of pain that slices a person in two and leaves you gasping for air? In the last three weeks my husband and […]

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    Recently, I preached a sermon on The Unclean Woman at Cornerstone University chapel, my alma mater. I could not have known that just a few weeks later my husband and I are facing loss and grief of our own, and I desperately needed to hear this message of hope myself. May you be […]

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Mary Magdalene, the one released from seven demons, lingers in the garden weeping, her tears watering the soil.  She is known as the “apostle to the apostles” in Church history, and for most of us, she appears to be the female headliner in the story of Holy Week. We witness her tears of deep sorrow, her […]

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It is late Sunday afternoon, and I intended to be Sabbathing, but my intentions have been interrupted. (God says rest this one day—I’ve got this, but I had to do a “live-chat” ordering thing TODAY and I am third in the queue, and so I stopped for a minute to think about this season while […]

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