What does wholeness look like for me? I’ve been thinking about this for a few days, thanks to the #WholeMama project, but really, I’ve been thinking about it for a couple of months. I go through cycles of deep engagement and then withdrawal. I come up with great ideas and then don’t follow through. I’m…
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How To Be A Racial Accomplice In Only 80 Easy Steps!!!
I hope it goes without saying, but when you spend 33+ years being white, in white culture, spending only a couple of years learning about race is a drop in the bucket. But after having a few different conversations over the past few weeks, my journey so far has been swirling around in my head and I wanted…
A Wounded, Secret Jesus Feminist
“The cracks were ricocheting and multiplying across my heart now, and when I turned to the Church for answers, I did not feel my questions were welcome.” – Jesus Feminist How do you not stay bitter? How do you let go of the anger, the hurts, the soul-deep wounds Christians have inflicted? Lean into the…
True Womanhood – Cookies and Chains
Growing up, my grandma always kept the cookie jar stocked. Oftentimes, it was with molasses cookies. Which are disgusting. But, apparently, that’s not a common reaction. “What? How can you not like her molasses cookies? They’re the best!” I’ve noticed a similar attitude coming from this study and the idea of true womanhood. We’re…
How Does Vocation Impact Our Places of Work?
What makes a business ‘Christian’? Is it merely slapping a Jesus label on it? ‘A place where Christ is modeled, not preached’? Isn’t that what we’re supposed to be doing all the time, anyway? Or is it a business that tries to align itself with kingdom values, even if the name Jesus isn’t front…
Is It Who You Are, Or Just What You Do?
We can’t have healthy, Jesus-based discussions on identity and vocation, roles and purposes, until we admit what it is that Jesus has really called us to do. There is a myth we cling to that blinds us to who we are: “People get their worth and identity from their job.” And the church, which…
What Does Christian Vocation Look Like?
“Therefore, restoring identity and recovering vocation must be the focus of a biblical understanding of human transformation.” (WWP) If our vocation is to be working for the kingdom by loving God and loving others, what exactly does that look like? What does it mean to love something, someone? What does it mean to love…
Being an Image of God
My goal for this series is to explore the ideas of identity and vocation and how they can apply to our lives. All of this discussion and the opinions coming out of it are held very loosely, but because these are such important topics, it’s worth wrestling with them a bit. For example, when…
Identity and Vocation, Defined
What is identity? What’s vocation? Why are they important? When you do figure out a definition, how does it affect your life? I’m going to spend the rest of the month digging into Identity and Vocation, and what it means for us. A lot of the ideas for this series come from Walking with…