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Category: gender

  • A Mighty Whine

    Today is the first day I have not had a cough in three weeks, maybe four. Being medium sick is such a drag, especially when you are a Mom. It was a head cold I got hit with on a Friday that ran the most of February. By week two, it settled into my lungs…

  • 1 Corinthians 11: Under Cover Prayers

    Paul starts out the chapter encouraging the reader to emulate him because he is emulating Christ. While it seems bold to put himself in front, his point is that we all are looking to those who has gone ahead us to show us the way. Likewise, people behind us see us. We have a responsibility…

  • Better than Fiction 

    Back when I was dating during the aughts, I noticed a phenomenon where I had a tendency to fill in gaps in getting to know a person with best case/worst case scenarios. When things were going well, then any lack of knowledge or understanding was filled with hopes and dreams. Later, if things were going…

  • Finding Peace with Paul

    Finding Peace with Paul

    When I went to graduate school two decades ago, it was through a program where I taught English overseas during the school year and studied at home in the summer. Neat, right? I did all the courses to graduate, but at the end, I still needed three prerequisite Bible courses that the Christian college required,…

  • Boomtown

    Today I am going to talk about economics. Not that I am necessarily qualified to do so, I only took two classes in it. My maternal grandmother on the other hand, majored in economics and graduated with a degree in it, from Berkeley, in the 1930s  Can you imagine what that was like? Studying about…

  • The Greatest

    Last night I couldn’t sleep and ended up reading the book whole of Book Matthew. With all the talk of presidents and popes, it was time for a little bit of faith-checking.  Matthew is only 28 short chapters long. Reading it in one go shifted my perspective. There’s not very much of the Christmas story—just…

  • Vote for Life

    If you want to see less abortions in America, then I suggest that you vote for Kamala Harris this November. I know that this may seem counterintuitive, but the number of abortions actually goes down when Democrats are in office.* The reason is that it is not the lack of availability of safe abortions that…

  • The Other Other

    If I told you, “There is somebody at the front door,” Could you tell me what they looked like if my description did not include anything other than what I said already? Probably. You could go by my lack of description and rattle off all the “normal” things. First, we assume that it’s a man,…

  • The Measure of a Man

    According to JD Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy, is how he treats the women in his life. I was impressed with the sentiment, until I heard him speak disparagingly of childless cat ladies in the public sphere. His audiobook that I just listened to him narrate, is all about the struggles of his grandmother, mom and…

  • Emotional Gifts

    This morning, I read a string on the internet of people talking about the emotional weight that women carry in families. One of the examples I read was wives sending Mother’s Day cards to their mothers-in-law for their husbands to help carry their relationship. Some were kind of sad, but I have a good story.…