Tag Archives: Christianity

The Song of Knives and Forks

My grandmother passed away just over a year ago. Time has a strange hold on our perceptions, so it feels both very long ago, and just yesterday. She and I shared a birthday, and every year that our schedules aligned we would celebrate together. She would always bake me a German Chocolate Cake, and finally […]

Humility for the New Year

I took an accidental leave of absence from writing. Well, technically from blogging I suppose, I was still writing occasionally, in stunted starts and stops. At any rate, here’s a gentle return, which I hope will be one of many more to share in the coming year. As always, the few of you who have […]

Unsex Me!: How Lady Macbeth is a Forerunner to Abortion Rights

Fair is foul and foul is fairHover through the fog and air.-The Witches Macbeth, Act I, Scene I What is this world where we live where the taking of a life is freedom, a woman’s design is a burden, and the very life we carry a curse? Today, abortion is not just defended, but celebrated. By […]

Let’s Talk about Sex

Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove.O no! It is an ever fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wand’ring bark,Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.Love’s not Time’s […]

Hope Not in Women [Or Men]

Every December the same image circulates my social media feeds. It is a picture of a very pregnant Mary comforting Eve. Eve has a serpent entangling her leg, Mary’s foot is crushing its head. It’s a sweet, sisterly image at first glance, but it’s actually quite bothersome when we think through what it is imagining. […]