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Fault Lines

By: redtentwomen November 5, 2019October 24, 2019

Day to Day, Faith, relationshipsAvoiding Pain, Christianese, Christianity, Platitudes, Prasanta Verma2 Comments

I think each person has a fault line. A crack-line under the skin. Maybe you remember the day it appeared to you, and it became visible to others. Perhaps it shows itself after an unexpected event. Like a death. Or a diagnosis, for example. I observe your eyes glossing over when I try to explain…

Heart Words

By: redtentwomen April 9, 2019April 7, 2019

Day to Day, FaithChristianity, Claudia Hauer, Faith, Peace3 Comments

There is a saying that is particularly apropos of the Colorado Front Range: “If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute.” We can have snowflakes one moment, sleet the next, hail the next, rain the next, and then always a return to our characteristic blue skies that inspired the country oldie, “baby blue was…

Let’s Go

By: redtentwomen November 2, 2018November 2, 2018

Faith, Intentional Living, Monthly Themes, Travelafterlife, Christianity, Death, Eugene Peterson, half marathon, Heaven, last words, Mallory Redmond, Running1 Comment

I’ve grown accustomed to the feeling that something awful will happen to my husband and daughter at a young age. Every once in a while, it hits me that something could happen—an illness or injury that takes them from me all too soon. Recently, however, I’ve felt a relatively new fear: that illness or injury…

Preach it, Girl

By: redtentwomen May 18, 2018May 18, 2018

Monthly ThemesBrenda Salter McNeil, Christianity, Faith, Female Pastors, Katy Johnson, preach, Seminary, truth, Women9 Comments

The first time I heard a woman preach I was 17. Until then, I’d heard the “sharing of testimonies” by women in my church, but I’d never heard the proclamation of divine word uttered in a female voice.

Bar Joke

By: redtentwomen March 28, 2018March 28, 2018

Day to Day, Intentional LivingArmed Services Arts Partnership, Charles Bukowski, Christianity, Deconstruction, embracing change, Libby Kurz, Poetry, Teaching Writing3 Comments

“Find what you love and let it kill you.” – Charles Bukowski Three nurses and a radiology resident walk into a bar. They are young, single, female military officers who gather on weekends to drink cheap wine, eat overpriced sushi, and commiserate about their love lives (or lack thereof). Picture a scene from Grey’s Anatomy…