by Emily Wierenga | Oct 11, 2013 | changing lives, church, good news, miracle, miracle for maverick, surprise
(All of my prints, including this one, are 50% off on my Etsy site for a limited time only. Click on the image above for more info.) ***Listen close, friends….We’re going to be gathering together here on Monday, a whole lot of us — a... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 30, 2013 | Brian Holloway, church, dream, faith, Generation X, generation Y, Generation Z, millenials, open letter, potential, prayer, Stephentown 300, yuppies
Dear Generation Y,You have been called Yuppies. You have been called Millenials and Echo Boomers and Generation 9/11. You’ve been called lazy and entitled and special and spoiled.And 300 of you proved the latter this past week when you broke into a house in... by Emily Wierenga | Aug 19, 2013 | Boy Scout, celibacy, christian, church, community, faith, forgiveness, gay, grace, homosexual, LGBTQ, love, orientation, Pope Francis, sexual, sin
PLEASE NOTE: I wrote this post primarily for those within the church while still acknowledging the need to continue to grow in our capacity to love and dialogue with gay people outside of the church. I have spent the past month writing this post in cooperation with a... by Emily Wierenga | Aug 5, 2013 | church, community, depression, divorce, fellowship, isolation, pain, women
I’m away this week, taking a break from blogging to spend time with family, and am delighted to welcome friend and fellow blogger Stacy Edwards here today, to talk about women and why we crave community. By Stacy EdwardsI’m not a woman who makes friends... 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 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...