From Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara staring into each other's eyes

How do I tell you?

  • Post category:From: We Confess!
  • Post last modified:September 25, 2025

Shame that’s exposed hurts like hell. But only – only – when brought out into the light can shame be dealt with and sent away.

Tiny white flowers with yellow stamens, growing up from a dead log in a backwoods place

God chooses the foolish

Mark Charles is a prophetic voice to the US church culture. He describes himself this way: “I do not lead any organization nor do I work solely for a specific…

Woman hiker with backpack, standing where the path crests on a cliff, looking down on the huge, barren canyon below
Photo by sara.atkins

God is kind but not soft

Mini-post. "God is kind, but he's not soft ..." A notable Bible quote and an image of a courageous woman that encourage me to go with God.

Clusters of purple wine grapes, resting in the vine
courtesy Pavel Jedlicka

Live from a place of rest

Mini-post: Thought-provoking quote from Return to Your Rest. It begins, "Our Lord sees how very confused we are about rest ..."

White cotton boll hanging from a brown stem
Cotton I picked, (c) GollyGForce

We need to see

  • Post category:From: We Confess!
  • Post last modified:November 12, 2023

Mini-post: Thought-provoking quote from We Confess! The Civil War, the South, and the Church

Closeup of the head and shoulders of a newborn infant, with his eyes closed, his left hand grasping the finger of the nurse laying him on his back, and his cheek resting in her other hand.

Life lesson

  • Post category:Living Life
  • Post last modified:March 13, 2024

Mini-post: A life lesson I learned watching my first grandchild be born.

From the cover of Pondering Privilege: White dove holds an olive branch in its beak, over the book's subtitle, "toward a deeper understanding of whiteness, race, and faith."

A call to cultural humility

This book is a call to cultural humility by a woman who writes with a lot of humility. It's a call to us who are white to press in to see that what we count "normal" may not be others' normal at all.