Hey friends! I'm hoping to do some vlogging while I'm in Kenya to introduce you to some of the folks I meet while I'm there, and figured I'd better test out my technology. My discovery so far? My iPad doesn't like fluorescent lighting, so it's probably best NOT to record while it's pitch black outside. […]
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Suzanne and David Burden: “We have not less submission in our marriage, then, but more of it.”
Today’s Equally Yoked post is from my sweet friend Suzanne Burden. “So I told him I am in a mutually-submissive marriage,” I said, commenting on a response to a fellow-student in my seminary class. My husband pulled the car up to the yellow lines as he prepared to drop me off at the door of […]
On arguing with experience, grieving the Holy Spirit, and being 5/8ths right.
My pastor is fond of saying “You can't argue with experience.” But some people do. I've been hearing about it a lot lately in Christian circles. The cessationist pastor who accuses charismatics of being heretics who “grieve the Holy Spirit.” The pentecostal who thinks people who don't speak in tongues aren't saved. The academic types […]
When We Are Impatient With God’s Work in Our Lives.
I read Isaiah 1 this morning. It's a powerful passage, one that is often quoted in justice-oriented circles because of it's condemnation of empty religious rituals and insistence that righteousness means helping the oppressed, defending the cause of orphans and fighting for the rights of widows. Good stuff. But, hoo boy. It's kinda dumb to […]
Divorce in the Church: “I literally asked Jesus to end my life because, in my mind, I could not end my marriage.”
Divorce is one of those topics we don’t really like to talk about in church. We all know people who have been wounded by divorce, and we all know people who have been wounded by staying in an unhealthy marriage. We know that the Bible speaks against divorce, yet we also know that God allowed […]
Want to help out a Kenyan Christian worker, and a couple thousand youths?
Here is a truism: the most necessary ministries, the most innovative, grassroots ones, are often the least funded. It is also an unfortunate truth that Western Christians, who hold the purse strings of much of the world’s wealth, are more likely to support Western missionaries than local Christian workers in places like Africa, Asia, and […]
In Which a Woman Scandalizes Stingy Hearts, but Blesses Jesus Enormously.
In “She Did What She Could,” Elisa Morgan asked a question only a woman would think to ask. When Jesus was on the cross, could he still smell the costly perfume Mary of Bethany had anointed him with only days before? Did it comfort him, this reminder of his friend's love, as he was dying […]
I’m going to Kenya! And other exciting news.
Hello again, friends! It's been a busy, exciting season for me. Between finishing college, starting seminary, doing an internship at my church, and undergoing a round of kidney stone surgeries and all the fun that goes along with that, I just haven't had the emotional energy for writing. No wonder the only post I wrote […]
Why I’m Glad I’m Going Gray
I noticed it for the first time as I was brushing my hair last night–a single strand of hair that caught the light in an unusual way. I paused, separating the hair from the strands around it, wrapping it around my finger so I could examine it more closely. Yep. A course thread of silvery […]
On College Graduations, Ordered Chaos, and Discovering Your Book Has Been Released Via Twitter
You know that feeling you get after you’ve just taken your airplane in for an emergency landing on the side of a wooded mountain, and you’re wandering around the forest dazed and concussed, delighted that you survived the ordeal, but not quite able to comprehend what just happened? Yeah, me neither. But I bet it […]
Christy and Jim Hammer: “About a year after the divorce, I began praying for forgiveness for my past mistakes, and for a Christian husband.”
Today’s Equally Yoked post is by Christina Hammer. Every day, even if I only acknowledge it only when I lie down to sleep at night, I find myself very grateful for my husband of over 21 years. Yes, we’ve had our share of ups and downs, and I think it’s only fair to let you […]
Dayna Taylor: “We are doing this together, and figuring out what balance looks like by God’s grace.”
Today’s Equally Yokes post is by Dayna Taylor. It originally appeared in Christians for Biblical Equality’s (CBE) Arise E-Newsletter on 9/6/2012. If you’re not already subscribed to Arise, you should sign up! I grew up in a traditional home and church where the ideal was that the mother nurtured and raised the children as well […]
James-Michael Smith: “’Guarding our heart’ doesn’t mean keeping it from getting broken.”
Today’s Equally Yoked post is an excerpt from James-Michael Smith’s book Dating Discipleship: Essays on dating, romance and singleness for followers of Jesus. When it comes to the Old Testament, many (if not most) Christians know that it’s important and part of Inspired Scripture…but aside from random stories about headliners like Moses, David or Abraham, […]
Protecting the Powerful at the Expense of the Weak
Most of us remember the story. David, serving his carnal desires, had Uriah’s wife Bathsheba brought into his bed. When David found out Bathsheba was pregnant and his sin was about to come to light, he launched a cover up, first telling Uriah to go home and sleep with his wife, and when that failed, […]
Jessi and Todd Clemmer: “Jesus doesn’t feel ‘threatened’ by his Bride; in fact, he told her she would do ‘even greater works’ than He.”
Today’s Equally Yoked post is from Jessi Clemmer. “You, Todd, will speak something…and you, Jessi, will speak something…but your one-flesh will also communicate something very powerful itself.” These were the words spoken to us by a wise, prophetic, older gentleman, as he was encouraging my husband and I in our partnership-style ministry. It struck me […]
Author, speaker, and mommy of four, living on coffee and lots of grace. Pastor at Darrow Road Wesleyan Church. Student at North Park Theological Seminary. Passionate about justice, mercy, and the "one anothers."
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