by Emily Wierenga | Apr 17, 2013 | abuse, apology, book giveaway, brennan manning, christian, convictions, feminism, gender issue, imperfect prose on thursdays, Jen Hatmaker, manhood, prayers, servanthood post, stories, trigger, womanhood, writer
I’m not sure but that there isn’t a time in every one’s life when we’re called–To stand up for what we believe in. But before we stand, we have to know what we believe, and before I became a wife and a mother, I didn’t really know.I didn’t know the way I would... by Emily Wierenga | Mar 15, 2013 | Abbie Smith, beauty, book giveaway, celibate sex, creation, femininity, God, marriage, sex trafficking, sexuality, singleness, womanhood
I’m excited to welcome Abbie Smith of Unsteady Saint, author of the newly released Celibate Sex, to my site today, to share part of her book with you and offer a giveaway.Lately, I’ve been a witness to elements of beauty in the African American... by Emily Wierenga | Feb 15, 2013 | always alleluia, book giveaway, faith, God, Holey, holy, imperfect prose on thursdays, joy, Kris Camealy, Lent, prayer, refinement, Wholly
So, so honored to host my friend, Kris Camealy, here… Kris has written an amazing new book, Holey, Wholly, Holy, which she’s giving away below… “I didn’t know lent would kill me. Thank God for the dying.” ~Holey, Wholly, Holy: A... by Emily Wierenga | Dec 7, 2012 | a light shining, book giveaway, books, dancing priest, fiction, glynn young, God, literature, novels, prayer, reading, writing
(Guest post by Glynn Young) I’m learning what fiction can do for people, and I’m learning it from people who read fiction.I was on an airplane in 2002, flying to San Francisco for a conference. The in-flight movies weren’t terribly appealing, and so I was... by Emily Wierenga | Nov 5, 2012 | (in)courage, bloom, book giveaway, book review, book study, chasing silhouettes, dayspring, eating disorders, fall recommended read, love, self-love, she loves, womanhood
…we’re in bed, and my husband leans in, and i ask him to tell me, just one more time. “but why?” he says, this farm-boy that walked me through my relapse when i was 23. “don’t you know it by now?” he says.i shake my head. “tell me again,” i say.“i love... by Emily Wierenga | Oct 12, 2012 | a deeper story, abandoned, appearance, beauty, body image, book giveaway, chatting at the sky, children, emily freeman, father, husband, leaving
Wind catches the curtains in my children’s bedroom. They sleep with flushed cheeks and eyelashes long and every night I check on them before I go to sleep, and every night I feel both afraid and awed by their beauty.I touch lips to their skin, remember how my mum...