Category: Blog Archives
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Memory and Identity
So two of the main themes in my dissertation are memory and identity–two things that fascinate and confound me. Both are fluid, contested, constantly being shaped and re-shaped, negotiated, constructed, forgotten, and re-constructed. There have been several seasons as I’ve been working on my PhD that I’ve had to burrow deeply into a cave in…
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Lay Aside Every Weight
It is no small thing to open ourselves to the presence of God in our lives. Learning to trust God, allowing ourselves to be vulnerable to God’s presence, is not a once-in-a-lifetime lesson—rather it is something that must be learned and re-learned throughout our lives.
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Swimming Lessons
When Monk first started talking about having a desire to be baptized, last January, he was curious about the process. And he wanted to know how D and I were each baptized. I was baptized (the first time, I admit with some chagrin) in a Methodist church when I was twelve years old. My brother…
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Preparing for Baptism
Last evening we had a long conversation with Monk about his desire to be baptized. We’re still trying to get a sense of his desire, wanting to make sure that he is not asking to be baptized simply because he senses it would please us or make us proud. Monk is going to be turning…
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Abundant Enough
This is the marvelous wonder of God’s love for us: it is in the experience of our hunger that we are fed; it is in the realization of our thirst, that we know it quenched.