If you haven’t seen the Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentary, Notorious RBG, I highly recommend it. It is quite prescient at a time when women are starting to realize that if we want to live in a…
Catch Me on Women on the Remake
I recently had the joy of spending an hour with Leigh Moody and Kristin Smith on their new podcast “Women on the Remake.” I think their podcast fills such a need for women (and men) who…
The Silent Pause We Need
My friend Bill Brown, a professor at Columbia Theological Seminary and my occasional Sunday School teacher, wrote an amazing Easter piece here that discusses the empty tomb of Easter as almost prescient to the situation we find…
Science Accidentally Discovers a Theory of God, Part 7: Singing Things Into Existence
It’s been a long time since we delved into the science of YOU. In the interim, I have lived several lifetimes and written about mourning the death of my people, forgiving myself, learning how to tell…
The Greatest Power in the Universe Is Not Love.
I am in so much pain right now. I can’t eat. I can’t sleep well. All I do is cry or try to hide my crying from others. Before my best girlfriend died last week, she…
To My Dearly Departed Person: A Letter About Grief
When I moved to Decatur in 2008, you were my first friend and quickly became my best one. We had both just moved to the Winnona Park neighborhood, didn’t know anyone and were trying to find…
Evolve or Die: The Internet’s Challenge to the Christian Church
The Christian Church is slowly dying in America due to a lack of imagination.[1] Early Gnostic Christians, such as Valentinus, would have argued that the Orthodox Church was dead on arrival with it’s seeming obsession with…
How to Forgive Yourself When You Can’t: Seek Humility
I got our dog back when my ex-husband, John, died in January. John caught a viral infection of the heart and was recovering when he developed sepsis and passed. It was excruciating to all of us…
What I Learned in Rehab: Join Me at the Atlanta Science Festival to Hear More
I hope that you will join me this Thursday, March 22, 2018, at 7pm at First Christian Church of Decatur at the Atlanta Science Festival panel entitled INTERSECTIONS OF SCIENCE, SPIRITUALITY & ADDICTION. Our panel is…
Science Accidentally Discovers a Theory of God, Part 6: One for All, All for One
We have discussed A LOT in this article series, and we aren’t done yet. I hope you will push through this to the end, because only once you have a basic understanding of the science can…