35 steps for my 35th birthday.
With an unexpected update: something else instead of the surgery you might've been expecting to read about this week.
Embodied Deconstruction
writing at the intersection of body & soul deconstructing faith | chronic illness & disability from the author of "psalms of deconstruction"
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Celebrating: one year on Substack.
Embodied Deconstruction turns 1—here's why I'm more committed to the name than I ever thought I would be.
Deconstructing a theology of emotion.
By helping me grieve, deconstruction has peeled back new layers of what the church taught me about emotions—and how that theology led me to deconstruct.
Hope is the thing with feathers.
My favorite poem is reminding me that hope has always been "the word" I've been after. It's always the word tethering me. Read a new poem about my own "thing with feathers."
This woman will not be silenced (none of us will).
My response to the SBC's vote to formalize the "right" theology that women are not welcome in their denomination. Not just to preach but to exist, if we're honest.
Grief is the thing with feathers (and fur).
Or talons—on grief, hidden hope, and a poem helping me process sudden, unexpected pet loss, the grief of it, and the hope hidden within it all.
The horizon ahead.
A new image that's helping my vision of hope these days.
When hope becomes a shapeshifter.
How do you have hope when it's outweighed by disappointment and fear and pain?
What hope actually feels like right now.
A vulnerable update (feat. joy-in-London glimpses!).
A love letter to our whole self
You were never broken to begin with.