What One Woman Thinks of Women's Ministry - "If I wanted to learn how to decorate cupcakes, I would take a class in it. If I wanted to be educated on strategies for decorating my home inexpensively from Winners, I would just, you know, go to Winners. Or Pinterest. But I’m here with you now because I want what the world cannot give me. We’re choking on cutesy things and crafty bits, safe lady topics, and if one more person says that modest is hottest with a straight face, I may throw up. We are hungry for authenticity and vulnerability, not churchified life hacks from lady magazines. Some of us are drowning, suffocating, dying of thirst for want of the cold water of real community."
Pastoring Grief - "When we sit with someone who has encountered devastation it can be scary ... This is one place I am helped by the Quaker tradition. In fact, I believe—if not always practice—that my role is not to have the answers, give good advice, or “heal” ...
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