Portfolio

Find me elsewhere on the web:

A Life Overseas:

Dear Single Missionary

The Cult of Calling
(republished at ForEveryMom.com, faithit.com and OSCAR)

Altarwork:

I once was (color) blind, but now…
(republished from blog)

The Christian Century

Book Review: Pregnancy Is Undeniably Beautiful and Bizarre

Faithfully Magazine (print):

Race Resources for White People

For Every Mom:

The Ugly Truth about Diversity
(republished from blog) 

What My Pregnant Body is Teaching Me 
(republished from blog)

iBelieve

8 Step Digital Fast: How to Reawaken to What Matters

Cultivating Community and Practicing Hospitality from a “Social Distance”

(In)Courage

I Tried to Run Away from Love

Our So-Crazy-They-Just-Might-Work-Ideas

Marriage Trac

What Does Hospitality Look Like When Your Spouse is an Introvert?

Meadow Rue’s Blog:

In the Fire (on Motherhood)

Mudroom:

Selling Out by Settling Down?

When Life is Less Radical Than You Imagined

The Best Years of Our Lives 


Loving After Trump

Pastor Resources

8 Ways Churches Can Welcome Well

Plough

The Gift of Death: Learning to Live in Kairos Time

When the Church Doors Close

The Redbud Post

Small, Sticky Hands Lead Me to Jesus

You’d Do the Same for Me

Red Tent Living

White Skin Abroad

RELEVANT

Why I Left the Cult of ‘Calling’ (And Why You Should, Too)

Self Talk the Gospel:

A Letter to My Daughter

SheLoves Magazine:

I Was a Stranger, Extravagantly Loved

How Our Muslim Student Became Auntie Boo 

Falling Off the Missionary Pedestal 

Frozen Manna 

Madeleine L’Engle Made Me Do It 

Breastfeeding and the Liturgy of the Hours

When the Answer is Not Now

My #Woke Journey

When You and Your Husband Have Different Callings

When Writing Feels Like a Waste of Time

In Solidarity with the Butt Wipers

Confessions of a Chronic Church Hopper

Doe, a Deer, a Female Deer

The Cost of Getting Proximate

A Bite Out of the Sun: An Eclipse Story

In Which I’m Pretending to Be Close to God

Does God Want Mediocrity for Me?

The Sacrament of Childbirth

It’s Time to Hide My Hashtags

Luddite for Lent: A Phone Fasting Testimony

Confessions of a White Ally

S.P.A.G. Magazine (Australia):

A Single Missionary in China

You Are Here Stories:

Chicago’s Uptown

Velvet Ashes:

A Letter to the One Returning Home

When You Feel Spiritually Dehydrated…Again

When We Fear

Verge Network

Racial Justice Series

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