by Emily Wierenga | Apr 7, 2013 | Emily Wierenga, feminism, heartache, humility, Jesus, joy, Philippians, prodigal magazine, servant, servanthood post, update
Hi friends.I’m still here.Just a bit quiet these days.It was a hard week. A heartache week, knowing I hurt some people (unintentionally) through THIS post, yet knowing too that I was trying only to be obedient, so I haven’t had many words to say as of... by Emily Wierenga | Apr 3, 2013 | belief, Christ, doubt, faith, Gideon, God, incarnation, Jesus, manifestation, persecution, spiritual, truth, vision, visitation
The light, falling through broken blinds on our unmade bed and the books piled up, dog-eared and clothes on the floor and laundry folded in a basket waiting to be put away. It was early morning and the boys, all four of them this Easter weekend, were doing a... by Emily Wierenga | Apr 2, 2013 | Biblical womanhood, evangelical feminism, feminism, husband, leadership, marriage, prodigal magazine, servant-hood, spiritual mothers, submission, wife, woman's manifesto, womanhood, women pastors
Dear sisters, dear spiritual mothers and daughters and midwives and stay at home mamas;Dear women pastors and elders and janitors and lawyers and teachers and artists,I celebrate us. I think this is obvious from my Woman’s Manifesto.But.I fear for us too.I fear... by Emily Wierenga | Mar 25, 2013 | a dare to love yourself, acceptance, alive, art, art journal, dreams, Elora Nicole Ramirez, Jesus, little girl, makeup, mom in the mirror, The Love Dare
I wrote a letter to my body once.It was something suggested to me by my therapist – something I never in a million years thought I’d be able to finish. It was a post written in the middle of as opposed to after the fact. I did not see... by Emily Wierenga | Mar 22, 2013 | children, church, drinking, feminism, leaders, men, rape, Savanah, sons and daughters, Steubenville, submission, women
Abigail Batty, and Felicity DeVries, born March 19, 2013This morning I greeted life with a bouquet of flowers and a Jesus Storybook Bible, in hospital room #33, where my friends had both given birth on the same day, and both to girls.And one, the sister to Savanah...