by Emily Wierenga | Jul 22, 2013 | Biblical womanhood, church, faith, fat, love, lust, modesty, objects, Purity Culture, shame, thin, womanhood
I’m thin. But I feel fat in a swimsuit. I feel very fleshy and obvious in a swimsuit. I can’t pretend away my curves. I can’t pretend away my stretch marks or my flat chest or the scar where I burned my calf on a scooter. I can’t hide and that’s hard for me. I... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 19, 2013 | book giveaway, Dena Dyer, divorce, faith, hope, marriage, prayer, separation, women, wounded
I’m honored to host my friend and High Calling Editor Dena Dyer on my blog today; Dena is giving away a copy of her NEW book–Wounded Women of the Bible! Leave a comment below to win. Guest post by Dena Dyer My sweet mother-in-law once inscribed a card... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 17, 2013 | #imperfectprose, blogging, camping, God, homeless, hungry, hurt, imperfect prose on thursdays, Jesus, pain, street people
Kasher is chanting on the top of Trent’s shoulders, and it sounds like a monk’s song. We’re camping at Snaring River where we tented back when I was 39 weeks with the same boy. There are no flush toilets here. No hot showers. Just the bare smell of nature,... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 16, 2013 | boy scouts, church, deleting, faith, gay, letter, love
I chose this morning to delete my letter to the Boy Scouts and to the Church.Friends, my intention in writing the letter that I did was to speak the truth in love to the LGBTQ community, but many did not feel it was loving. So I decided to take it down out of respect... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 15, 2013 | faith, God, hypocrisy, ink, Jesus, Leviticus, Old Testament rules, piercings, sin, tattoos
This is me a couple of years ago: dreads, stretched ears, piercings, and tats.I have three tattoos. And I love Jesus.A number of people have called me a hypocrite over the past week, regarding my latest tat (the one I got with my husband–you can read about it...