glorious ruins…
Walking the streets of Thessaloniki is quite a treat. Bustling shoppers, street owners with loud voices are calling back and forth, in what would assume to be a regular city. But deeply seeped in the foundation of the city is history rich with truth. The apostle Paul...
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IF gathering podcast…
Yassas and Здравейте to all my fine American friends! It’s been a crazy couple weeks with work and my goal was to blog all about it while I was in Greece and Bulgaria, but as the computer gods would have it, my computer died. Well, it was dead to me and...
read morethoughts on forgiveness…
It’s often been said that holding on to resentment is like drinking poison and expecting it to kill someone else. But we’re rarely fond of the alternative. On a topical level, forgiveness can feel like fat-free food: unsatisfying. It’s easier to imagine ways of...
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hot mess leadership…
I think all of us have been there. Don’t lie, it’s true. We’ve all had a moment where we have to show up in an environment and lead, even when we feel incapable to. Whether its at school, in a boardroom, at a prayer meeting, or in a living room, we...
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100 words: the truest or most false self…
If you take a look at history, some of the greatest characters have humbly failed. We should never strive to fail, but as imperfect, fractured beings, we are prone to falling short. It happens. David, Jonah, Peter, Paul, Sarah all faced some form of affliction. Their...
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you are an answer to someone’s prayer…
We all have those friends who are just a bit off. You know, that friend who does something and you shake your head wondering how on earth you could love such an odd human being. Well, that friend is me. And I own it. You know that passage in the bible where Paul talks...
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slavery and the impossible…
It’s a big week at work and in light of the A21 Freedom Challenge, I will talk a little about slavery. [If you haven’t been following our cycle across Europe, you’re missing out!] But I would like to talk about this in the scope of the big...
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IF:Gathering…
In a convening of all things I love [Texas + Church + Jesus + People], I’m excited to share with you a meeting of minds… and hearts… and souls that will take place in Austin. I’ve spoken about IF:Gathering before, but now I have some juicy...
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today’s christian woman…
Titles are weird. I’ve written about my feeling towards door posts and name placards before, and titles fit in that same category. How do you synthesize everything you are into a twitterized blurb about what you do? A couple weeks ago I was interviewed by...
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on being known…
What does it mean to be known? Like, really known. I can tell you that I’m Hispanic and like almond butter, but would you know me? I’m a twin and according to my parents, my sister and I had a language that only we knew. We spoke in jibberish and she would say...
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I’m a writer and teacher in love with two men: Jesus and my husband, Matt. [You might not find this funny, but I laugh at myself, so it all balances out.]
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