Author Archives: Lydia
Yucky Thoughts and Secret Weakness
My three-year-old emerged this morning, with a deep scowl and bedhead, and announced, “I’ve been thinking about yucky things and now those yucky things are in my body.” He has a particular flair for the dramatic, but as usual, his articulation made me think. It’s been a harsh few weeks in my head. My husband […]
Silencing Our Conscience
Yesterday David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt were indicted by a grand jury. They are the investigative journalists of The Center for Medical Progress behind the sting operation who procured secret video footage of Planned Parenthood’s executives admitting to fetal part sales from abortions and many other ethically egregious (though legally ambiguous) admissions. Meanwhile, an entire industry based […]
Could Allah Be Our God Too?
Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God? There has been a lot of discussion about this recently after a Wheaton professor, Larycia Hawkins, proclaimed that Christians and Muslims do in fact worship the same God, a statement she made to explain her choice to wear a hijab for the length of Advent as an act of […]
Where is our [Christmas] Treasure?
Since our first son was born we’ve started thinking about what kind of traditions we want to have for our family, especially around the Christmas season. We’ve kept some from each of our families, and added some of our own, and overall we’ve wanted to set a certain tone for Christmas that will teach our […]
The Dough is Rising (even if you can’t see it)
I love to bake bread. Cooking isn’t exactly my favorite hobby, but I’ll happily stand for hours in my kitchen letting sticky dough cover my hands, it’s one of the few places I find peace. Even more so if I can share the process with little hands squishing (and usually eating) dough with me. There’s […]
Oceans Never Fill 