cultivating the beautiful ordinary by sharing our tales and our tables
In my 20s, when I was part of a “soft complementarian” church that did not quite believe in women’s leadership—one that put gendered limitations, sometimes explicit and sometimes just quietly understood, on the roles women were expected to play and the gifts women were (or were not) expected to offer—I spent so much time unsure…
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A nervous shudder ran through my body when I saw his name in the subject line of the email. I braced myself for some kind of ploy. I rushed to make sense of things in my mind. Was he reaching out wanting to make things right or to humbly apologize? I quickly knew the…
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At family gatherings as a child, I did not lack for cousins to play with as five of us “baby boomer” cousins were born in the same year. My father used to tell the story of a family gathering where all of the cousins were present. One of my same-aged cousins was being a bully…
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