Sabotage, coerce, shame: Bullying in the church
It’s agonizing to be bullied – and it can happen to an adult, in the church. People eager to control, plot to sabotage, coerce, shame.
Bucking the system: Shunning, submission, Jesus
Jesus grew up in a religious system God had instigated, and people had hijacked to use for their own ends. Jesus’ life shows us when and how to buck the system.
Walking on the water to Jesus
Rejected by church systems and their leaders. Yet profoundly affirmed by God. Here's my story of walking on the water to meet Jesus when he made the way.
Women, false responsibility and the church
A distorted view of “women’s responsibility” is deeply embedded in the church. Here’s what people may expect of us – but God does not.
This “good Christian girl” is a woman now
Grown, yet unaware my view of women was far more Confederate than biblical, I was a good Christian girl. This girl is a woman now, a woman going with God.
O say, can you see?
I did not dream that, in my lifetime, leaders in the US church would convince so many to embrace such skewed views of God, Christianity and country.
Recognizing the world in church clothing
Lord Jesus, show me when the church is not the church. Expose the world in church clothing – a system competing with God for my heart.
Exploited in the church, but Leah no more
As unloved Leah did Jacob, a woman can give herself to a church culture that exploits her – while rejecting her personhood, her adulthood, her worth, her.
A spirit like Caleb’s – fully following God
At a crucial moment in my life, Henry Blackaby and Caleb of old encouraged me: Regardless which way anyone else is rowing, you be filled with following God.
Women, prophecy and the church
"A woman with the gift of prophecy is not to speak what she hears from God," said the preacher. "But to take to it to her prayer closet.”