Modern technology does have its down sides (see Rob Bell’s recent series: A Brief Guide to the Undernet: Parts One, Two, and Three), but one of its up sides allowed for one of my dearest friends and I to spend an evening this weekend chatting via FaceTime while we cooked our respective dinners in two different…
One of the many questions I’ve found myself asking lately concerns the cultural nature of Christianity: how much of what I believe about what it means to be a follower of Jesus has been shaped by what people have told me to think versus what’s actually true? And what haven’t I questioned yet that maybe…
There are moments that – for whatever reason – stick with us from the moment we experience them. The first time I watched Meg Ryan as Albert Einstein’s niece in IQ scrawl the words “Question Everything!!!” across a blackboard was one such moment for me. I think I’ve been subconsciously questioning everything ever since. A…
So much of the past three to four years of my life have been marked by an emergence of sorts. I am still very much myself, but how I live into “being me” is very different now than it used to be. I’m less guarded, more open, more likely to shoot straight about what I think…
I remember coming home from a conference on cross-gender friendship a couple years ago, and calling one of my best friends from college. “How’d it go?” she asked. “It was awesome. I learned a lot… oh, and I think I’m an egalitarian feminist.” She started laughing. “No, really. I think I’ve been one for awhile, actually….
