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Being a pastor gives you a unique lens -- being a female pastor who doesn't fit the mold gives you a REALLY unique lens. Here are some thoughts as I try and understand the world around me through that lens.
April 23, 2015
I was holding a fitness magazine in line at a grocery store when a lady from my church surprised me. We chatted for several minutes, and it wasn’t until I left the store that I noticed the headline across the top of my women’s fitness magazine was one of those ‘how to please your man’ topics. […]
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April 15, 2015
The other day I sat across from two young men who were questioning a lot about faith and church. We decided to go grab coffee and had great conversations that jumped all over the place. Eventually it got quiet and one said, “this is going to embarrass my buddy, but do you date?” Now […]
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April 3, 2015
“I don’t get it.” My friend looked across the table from me with a puzzled look; he was being honest about his feelings about Holy Week. He doesn’t understand why many mainstream denomination Christians celebrate Holy Week. He tried to explain that, growing up in the evangelical church, Holy week just seemed like a lot […]
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March 25, 2015
“Am I doing it right?” That’s the first question many people ask me and the other art volunteers at our Icreate art class sessions. Icreate is a weekly gathering during Lent where we explore different forms of art. I am always surprised by the question, and my answer is usually: “It’s art; you can’t get […]
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March 18, 2015
A funny thing happens when you are playing soccer – you see the game almost in slow motion. I was playing as a forward for one of the first times during a game in my junior year of high school (I was usually a mid fielder). I was running toward the goal and everything seemed to be moving slowly, although I knew by […]
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March 5, 2015
isaiah 2:4 4 He shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. The wind was blowing so hard I thought “little me” might blow away. The […]
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February 5, 2015
My final post in the three part “The End is Near” series. “11 Then I saw a great white throne and the one who sat on it; the earth and the heaven fled from his presence, and no place was found for them.12And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books […]
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January 28, 2015
When I was in high school I was concerned about the end. Not just the end of my own life, but the end of time. Part of it was that our school had a very active Mothers Against Drunk Driving group, and our own mortality was constantly being driven into us. From car wreck displays […]
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January 22, 2015
The room was filled with teenagers doing their best interpretation of being drunk. We were stumbling, giggling and generally having a good time. It looked like any other group of high school juniors and seniors having a wild night out. What made the scene out of place is that it was inside a Southern Baptist […]
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December 31, 2014
The last time I preached at my church I was on fire. Literally. My hair caught on fire. It was during the dramatic end of the Christmas Eve sermon. The lead pastor (from our other site) and I had crafted a creative experience using the John 1 passage “The light shines in the darkness, and […]
