I found my youngest's weekend job list. We've been trying to adjust how we do work around our home so that we can work on more intentionally resting. I'm not good at resting and I realized that, in our very hurried society, I probably needed to model what rest looks like. Read a book. Play … Continue reading Rest.
Category: Some say I’m an exvangelical.
As long as the bad guy isn’t me.
Back in the early 1960s, a theme park opened in Tennessee with a Rebel Railroad. Passengers could ride through Pigeon Forge with toy rifles, pretending to protect the train from a union attack and buy souvenirs with hints of confederate sympathy. Needless to say, this didn’t sit well with visitors from the north. Later, the … Continue reading As long as the bad guy isn’t me.
Once upon a time, there was a capable wife…
I’ve always despised Proverbs 31, until this week. Throughout my life, this bit of biblical scripture has been regularly used to praise certain types of women and shame all other women. I have never been what is considered a “capable wife”, at least not in the ways I was taught to interpret it previously as … Continue reading Once upon a time, there was a capable wife…
A New Freedom
“For good or ill, language shapes human life. Individuals and communities may be condemned to bondage or introduced to a new freedom by the particular stories that they tell and retell and by the metaphors and parables that they employ to understand the world, themselves, and the ultimate reality called God.” -----Daniel L. Migliore The … Continue reading A New Freedom
What I can expect.
I know it might surprise some that I left a conservative church for what might look like another conservative church. The majority of my life, I have been part of a Church of Christ. Churches of Christ are known for having some similarities overall, such as using no instrumental music and typically adhering to a … Continue reading What I can expect.
Hospitality to Strangers
The porch kitty who has chosen to guard us is teaching me a great deal about what service can and arguably should look like. Whether she is doing it or another stray critter, our garbage cans are often tipped over and the bags ripped open. This weekend was particularly egregious. A heavy rain came before … Continue reading Hospitality to Strangers
So we confess.
“So we confess, and most undoubtedly believe.”-- from the Scots Confession Though the Scots Confession is based in Christian faith, I find this particular sentence to be broad reaching and pertinent today. Regardless of religion, I think we all confess and we all undoubtedly believe. Daily, and especially recently, we are surrounded by anger, death, … Continue reading So we confess.
Beka Tucker 