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
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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
Mothering the Church
All of the daughters of God can resist the patriarchal talk that undermines, teaching God’s children to play fair in church, no gender favorites and
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
God’s Attributes in Mothers
When I was a graduate student navigating a new culture, distanced from family and friends, I found comfort at a local rose garden. Sniffing the
March 5, 2022
To Leave or to Stay: How Women Can Change the Church
Editor’s note: This is a CBE 2021 Writing Contest Top 15 Winner! For a long time, I have wondered if a women’s church strike would
March 2, 2022
Black Woman, What’s Your Mission? Encouragement for Everyday Egalitarians
To me feminism is not simply a struggle to end male chauvinism or a movement to ensure that women will have equal rights with men;
February 23, 2022