by Emily Wierenga | Nov 30, 2012 | author, famous, God, humility, identity, news anchor, spotlight, the high calling, TV
(photo by JustinaGibson.com)“Why do you want to be on TV?”We were walking home from Mount Carmel Bible School, along the same stretch of asphalt we walked every day and he was a farm-boy from Neerlandia, a small Dutch community with three reformed churches. And he... by Emily Wierenga | Oct 27, 2012 | a deeper family, a deeper story, feminism, gender issues, gender roles, identity, response, womanhood
Warning: This post is not to answer all of your questions. It is not to provide a universal equation. It is not to defend feminism or complementarianism or anything else. It is to share my story.Up until a few months ago I had stretched ears, a piercing in my chin,... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 25, 2012 | a deeper story, body image, cards, eating disorders, etsy shop, giclee print, identity, mary pipher, naomi wolf, virginia wolfe, womanhood
“All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point—a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 24, 2012 | autumn, boys, children, eating, eating disorders, fire, food, girls, health, identity, love, meal, perfect, stereotypes
we are sitting around the fire, pronging hot-dogs and smokies and children licking mustard from fingers and the smoke curling like an exotic dancer. we hear the coyotes strike up a chorus across the road in a forest blazing with autumn color and we all pause a moment... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 3, 2012 | art, artist, calling, conference, creation, creator, identity, imperfect prose on thursdays, justice, love, salvation, weight, wild goose festival
following are some photos, and a snippet of my talk, which i gave this sunday at the Wild Goose Festival… taking some time now, to recuperate and reconnect with my boys, but we will be starting Imperfect Prose again, this Wednesday… hope you can join us!It... by Emily Wierenga | Aug 29, 2012 | cancer, children, flowers, garden, identity, love, mum, needing, parenting, she loves magazine
…As a mother of four boys—two of them my own—I’m trying to need them in the way that Mum needed her flowers, in the way that she needed me when she got cancer. In the way that she would leave messages on my answering machines which consisted mostly of “umm,” and...