A story and a prayer about Cake
Once upon a time there was a cake. Some travelers came upon the cake, and being hungry after their long journey, they cut it into even slices and shared it between them. Where they came from, the King...
View ArticleStill Flying
I just returned from an incredible week at the Harvest Island Wilderness Workshop: a week with 15 others on a remote island, learning about writing from Leslie Leyland Fields (a masterful writer, as...
View ArticleIs my child ready for Kindergarten? Should we start school early? Or wait a...
I had the joy of being a guest on the Coffee + Crumbs podcast this week, talking about the difficult decisions we have as parents of choosing schools for our kids. Public? Private? Home school? Other?...
View ArticleIs it okay to watch Game of Thrones? (some thoughts on freedom, fear, and...
“Dear Bronwyn, Is it okay to watch Game of Thrones? I have Christian friends who want to get together and watch it, and other Christian friends who think it’s the Show Satan Made. Any thoughts?...
View ArticleThe Lord is my Shepherd, it’s going to be okay (A Psalm for weary women)
Remember playing hide-n-seek as a kid, and after a countdown the seeker would shout “Ready or not, here I come!”? Lately I’ve been feeling like I want to hide away somewhere, too, but my calendar is...
View ArticleI love you, friend, but I don’t want your essential oils (or leggings, or...
If you’ve been around church women for any length of time, chances are you’ve been invited to some kind of product party: a “no pressure, just-a-bunch-of-girls get together” with food and a...
View ArticleHelp: How do I stop liking someone?
Dear Bronwyn, How do you stop liking a man? I’m in college and I met a guy who has fantastic personality and character, and I find incredibly attractive. BUT, he doesn’t have a relationship with Jesus...
View ArticleThe Surprising Thing about Strength in Weakness
I’ve been thinking a lot about weakness lately. Weakness, failure, and the terrible gap between how we hope things will turn out and how they actually do. Motherhood and ministry—while both brimming...
View ArticleWhen Church Feels Like Ballet Class (some thoughts on Posture, Strength,...
Someone asked me recently when last I was “wowed” by church. I didn’t know what to say, but it made me wonder about the question: should I expect to be “wowed” by church? If not, what should church...
View ArticleA Hell of a Tone of Voice (Some thoughts on how we talk about what happens...
A while back, I was asked to participate in a panel answering questions about heaven and hell. The group had spent a couple weeks in a series looking at what Scripture says about what happens after we...
View ArticleThe Stone Hearts
We all walked a little hunched against the broody gray sky, reflexive defenses against the raindrops that had not yet fallen. All thirty of us tumbled out of cars, lunches and rain boots akimbo. We...
View ArticleWhat I’ve been up to (and hello)
Hello, friends. I have a blog post or two I’m planning to put up in the near future, but before then just wanted to drop a note and say hello and a little of what I’ve been up to. What I’ve been...
View ArticleGod, the Paraeducator
This month we made a big deal out of Teacher Appreciation Day at our schools, and rightly so. Teachers are amazing and deserve every bit of support and encouragement we can offer. There is also a...
View ArticleOne Great Question Makes All The Difference
Our family got to travel to Europe this summer, and apart from a horrendous, miraculous day when we lost our six year old in Paris, it was memory-making magic. We ate gelato and rode gondolas and...
View ArticleHigh Dive, Deep Dive (a meditation on love and surprises)
It’s been twenty—maybe thirty—years since I jumped off a diving board. I’m not sure whether it was the sun or the extra shot of caffeine that morning, or just the end-of-summer joy of being at the pool...
View ArticleWhen Your Kid Googles You (Take care. Someone’s listening.)
“I looked you up on google,” my daughter said a few weeks ago. I froze, arranging my face as nonchalantly as I could: “Oh really? What did you find?” “You’ve written a LOT of articles,” she observed,...
View ArticleFinding the Edges of me in Space
I heard once that astronauts would explode in space without spacesuits. ...Out here, with just my laptop and a wifi connection and the vast white wilderness beyond my window, I wonder if that might be...
View ArticleA letter to the one who is failing
This moment that feels like failure is an invitation to go deeper.
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