My Body, Broken for You: Motherhood, Jesus, and Julian of Norwich
My third daughter came quickly. Not many hours ago I had been at the zoo with my older girls, and suddenly here I was with
March 5, 2022
Topic: Parenting / Youth
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An Ethic of Sacredness and Justice: Recovering the Imago Dei of Mothers
Editor’s note: This is a CBE 2021 Writing Contest Top 15 Winner! In speaking these words to Adam and Eve in Genesis 1, God commissions
March 5, 2022
I Am More Than a Mother: Dismantling the Madness of the Motherhood Myth
I was twenty-nine years old, married for five years, when it felt like the right time for my husband and I to head down the
March 5, 2022
A Mother’s Sermon
In my lifelong journey as a follower of Jesus, there are only a handful of times when a sermon about Christ’s sacrifice on the cross
March 5, 2022
Liberation in God’s Name: Daydreams of a Black Mother
I met my now-husband in our high school freshman English class. When we were sophomores, he invited me to his all-white church, as he did
March 5, 2022
Pregnancy and the Pastorate: An Opportunity to Reflect Christ
It was a busy fall season in the church—a time when programs begin and new series launch. I was struggling to keep up, at one
March 5, 2022
Motherhood: A Confession
My children, with whom I am in labor again until Christ is formed in you . . . (Gal. 4:19, NRSV) Sitting down at my
March 4, 2022
How to Teach Mutuality to the Next Generation
Editor’s note: This is a CBE 2021 Writing Contest Top 15 Winner! At my niece’s second birthday party, I watched as she and her four-year-old
December 15, 2021
Why Egalitarianism Is Good for My Sons
I’m a Father of Boys I’ll never forget finding out I was becoming a parent. In one moment, I felt overwhelming fear and elation. The
June 15, 2021
Why the Church Needs to Talk about Miscarriage
On March 25—with 65,000 new cases of coronavirus in the United States—my husband and I ventured from our apartment. He took his fishing gear in
May 5, 2021
