Tag: church

The Conviction of Covenanters & Anti-Vaxxers

It's not even 8 a.m. on the West Coast as I type this and already this day has started off with several deep conversations. The first was with a daughter dealing with the aftermath of her 2nd Covid shot. A bit of a headache and[..]
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02 04 , 2021 2 Comments
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Rise Up from the Country

Several years ago, while working on Mother of Rain, the beginning of the Appalachian novels I wrote, I snuck in late to the evening service at Christians Bend Church in Tennessee. I had not been in the church since 1968. The last time I[..]
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19 12 , 2020 4 Comments
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Cornbread, Calvinists & Covid

I made cornbread. The old-fashioned kind. You know, with corn meal and flour, not the kind that comes out of a Jiffy or Dave's box. There was a time when I knew how to make cornbread from heart, the way I do my biscuits. Today,[..]
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18 05 , 2020 5 Comments
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My Faith Walk the Past Five Years

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26 01 , 2020 No Comments
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Please Pray for Me

I can't stop thinking about him and I don't even know who he is. Every Sunday during church service we have a time set aside for prayer. Anyone in need of prayer can write out a request and put it in the donation basket. Pastor[..]
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23 01 , 2020 No Comments
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All My Favorite People

Some of my friends quit church long ago, disappointed and/or hurt by a hierarchy of patriarchy, a system designed specifically to suppress the voices of all but the men in power. Just this past week I heard a woman with a doctorate declare that the[..]
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30 09 , 2019 1 Comment
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A Matter of Allegiance

Join me for a game of Imagine for a bit, shall we? This is a game where I imagine the world as I would like it to be. Or where I try to imagine the world as others wish it to be. Let's start with[..]
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18 07 , 2019 2 Comments
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A Woman of Bleak Faith

Shortly after Mama died, I abandoned my position as a "Christian Blogger." Now I mostly refer to myself as a woman of bleak faith. I didn't leave my position as a Christian writer because I was angry at God. I wasn't. Mama's dying silenced[..]
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05 05 , 2019 3 Comments
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The Stuff of Life

Things have been busy around these parts, what with a wedding approaching in two weeks, Spring Break this week, sick kiddos last week, and finally buying a new (to us) rig more suitable to this region. The stuff of life. Car shopping is such a[..]
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31 03 , 2019 1 Comment
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