She Ate the Fruit. She Had To.
By Wendy (This song is performed by Wendy and her sister.) I was 24 when I got divorced and my parents separated. It was a gut-wrenching time, to say the least. To soothe the...
Category: Relationships
Seventeen Times I Felt Reverence.
(Inspired by a beautiful part in a beautiful book, 100 Birds Taught Me To Fly, called, “Twelve Times I Prayed.”) My sister, C, holding my baby, singing, “I’m just a little black rain cloud, hovering under...
Marriage vs. a Piece of Paper
“Marriage really is just a piece of paper,” I said to my fellow Laurel as we sat in an unused room in the church, skipping Sunday school one morning, years and years ago. “I...
“Rear their children in love and righteousness”
The title of my post comes from a line in The Family: A Proclamation to the World. The full sentence reads, “Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness,...
How I became Sex-Positive
By Hannah If you’re unfamiliar with the term, “sex positive” – read this definition first! Everything I learned about sex came from the World Book encyclopedia, starting with the day my first menstrual cycle...
We put our marriage to the test. We failed.
After learning about John Gottman’s research demonstrating that successful couples make five deposits into each other’s emotional bank accounts for every one withdrawal, my husband and I tried a little experiment to see if...
An Eve Choice
Mother Eve faced two incompatible directives – “to multiply and replenish the earth, that you may have joy and rejoicing in your posterity” and “of the tree of the knowledge of good and...
Women of the Bible Series: Ruth and Naomi
I grew up in a house full of women. I am the last of four sisters, raised primarily by my mother. She was the first of 7 siblings, only 2 of which were brothers,...
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