church talk & vulnerability

I haven’t listened to a sermon in months. My younger self – from even just a few years ago – would be flabbergasted by this. I was in church for years. I loved church; I threw my whole self into it. The music, the scriptures, the sermons: all of it brought me so much comfort,

A Poem for Holy Week

if the pain the grief the ache the loss the longing  associated with death  like on Friday and Saturday  feel far more present and real than the hope the joy the beauty  the goodness of life and resurrection  like on Sunday  you are not alone you are loved may you one day find love  grace

Being Sick And Having Faith Isn’t An Oxymoron

On October 31, 2019, a woman whose leadership I’d been under for a time in my middle and high school years passed away. She had been diagnosed with cancer a few years prior, and after several months of treatments, she was declared cancer free. Then she got cancer a second time. I have no doubt

Beliefs: What I Refuse, and What I Choose

I refuse to believe in a god who insists you must look or act or think or feel a certain way to be loved and welcomed. I refuse to believe in a god who would see me as superior or inferior to others for any reason (including sexuality, gender, political beliefs, religious beliefs, health, education

God Hasn’t Healed Me, And I’m Okay With That: Odyssey Revisited

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/god-didnt-heal-me-and-thats-ok My first semester in college, I was part of Dallas Baptist University’s writing group on The Odyssey Online. This is an article I wrote. I’ve re-read it and some of my other articles and am working on an “Odyssey Revisited” series where I’ll repost the articles on here. So, with that, here’s the fourth

Trusting God to Fight Our Battles: Mental Health (Twitter Theology)

“You can choose how you react to what life throws your way. You can get angry, stressed out or shrink into depression, or you can respond gracefully. The choice is always yours. God has called us to respond to slights with calmness, love and truth. Trust God to fight your battles.” -a tweet from user

Twitter Theology: Does Prayer Work?

As in several previous articles I have written under “Twitter Theology”, the inspiration for this article came from a tweet, which read as follows: “#ProgressiveChristian, #Agnostic, & #Deconstructing Twitter friends – one of my besties just asked me, “Do you think prayer works?” So I’m curious – do YOU think prayer works? Let’s have a

An Honest Prayer

As I’ve mentioned before in blogs, I’m chronically ill. While I have a number of both mental and physical illnesses, the main issue throughout the years has been chronic migraines. I am currently on a relatively new and generally effective treatment; however, during the month of August, I have been having much more headaches and

Faith and Chronic Illness

There’s a Bible college near where I live called Christ For The Nations. Every summer they have a youth camp called Youth For The Nations. I attended this camp with my youth group in 2016, and the following year I was unable to attend but I watched several of the services online because I had

Twitter Theology: Healing

I am a Christian. I have been for the majority of my life. For a long time I considered myself non-denominational, however as of late I’ve had more questions in my head about what denomination’s beliefs I most agree with. I’ve been in various churches (non-denominational, Word of Faith, Catholic, Baptist, Assemblies of God, Nazarene,