Key Truths for seeking hearts

Twin waterfalls flowing as one, in a lush green setting at Ricketts Glen State Park, Benton, Pennsylvania

The great righteousness-justice divide

Post published:October 24, 2020
Post category:From: We Confess!Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:May 21, 2025

Ultimately, collectively, the church quenched the Spirit’s voice in order to embrace the society’s values. The church began to preach - and to try to live - a righteousness unencumbered with justice. But. God.

Poppies by the seashore at dawn - one of them reaching up above the others and framed by the sun's light

So blinded for so long, I choose light

Post published:September 18, 2020
Post category:My Story Trauma and Grief
Post last modified:July 2, 2025

Even when people I love fight against it, I choose light. As I dare to go with God where fear, obligation and guilt forbid, I find hope and joy. I choose life.

A streak of lightning flashes through dark blue storm clouds.

God who loves fiercely

Post published:June 14, 2020
Post category:Knowing and Going with God
Post last modified:July 9, 2025

Nothing about our Lord is casual. The day he came down on Sinai has this in common with the day Jesus died in our place: Both show how fiercely God loves.

Closeup of cannon from the cover of my book, We Confess! The Civil War, the South, and the Church

Tell us about past events

Post published:June 6, 2020
Post category:From: We Confess!
Post last modified:December 23, 2025

What one bewildered, battered woman found, and dared to write, before patterns from the past began to replay in the present in such a visible, alarming way.

A tiny person stands on a distant mountaintop at dawn, under a vast and brilliantly colored sky.

Prepare to meet with God

Post published:May 12, 2020
Post category:Knowing and Going with God
Post last modified:July 9, 2025

Some things, you can’t wait to tell God. You run to him with the news. The Lord who invites you to meet with him delights in your coming to talk. He delights in your coming to hear. For this God has important things to say to you too.

Dreamlike painting of the low-hanging branches of a huge weeping willow

Seeking shade

Post published:April 27, 2020
Post category:Living Life My Story
Post last modified:November 27, 2023

Today, I need to stand in the shadow of something taller than me - something sturdy and living, deep-rooted and lasting, that whispers timeless secrets as the wind passes through.

A jumble of brown, plastic, inextricably linked coat hangers

The coat hanger conspiracy

Post published:April 17, 2020
Post category:Living Life
Post last modified:March 8, 2024

Sometimes, it’s the little things that can get to you.

Silhouette of a person kneeling before a cross, under a sky of dark-to-brilliant clouds

“It is finished” – but how?

Post published:April 9, 2020
Post category:Knowing and Going with God
Post last modified:June 13, 2025

Raised above the heads of those who hated him, those who grieved for him and those who liked the show, how was he able to breathe? Breathing required pushing up on those pierced feet. Breathing required ramming splintered wood into his shredded back. Breathing required an unfathomable commitment to finish.