by Emily Wierenga | Oct 23, 2013 | gospel, homeless, hungry, inner city, love, mission, poverty, prodigal magazine, street person
I can’t walk into a fast food restaurant bathroom anymore without seeing her legs, the way they stuck skinny beneath the door that day in old man pants, with white socks and black slippers. A little girl and her mother were in front of me and we all froze and I said... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 20, 2013 | achievement, belief, book giveaway, career, faith, food, Hattie Kauffman, journalism, memoir, Native American, news anchor, poverty
Hattie Kauffman made history as the first Native American journalist to ever file a report on a national network evening news broadcast and has over two decades of experience as an on-camera correspondent and news anchor. A speaker and writer, Hattie is a member of... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 13, 2013 | Awake, boldness, book, courage, girl, idleness, justice, life, Noel Brewer Yeatts, numbness, pain, poverty, rape, woundedness
It’s my pleasure to welcome Noel Brewer Yeatts, vice president of the faith based humanitarian organization World Help–whom I’ll be traveling with to Rwanda and Uganda in January–to my humble blog, to give away her new book, Awake: Doing a... by Emily Wierenga | Apr 9, 2013 | adoption, christians, excess, freedom, hunger, Jen Hatmaker, materialism, poverty, rich, Ron Sider, wealthy
(Guest post by Angela Reitsma Bick) I’m in Starbucks skimming Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, jotting down questions for an interview with Ron Sider the next day. The irony is not lost on me. I pray, abashed, that God will free me from stinginess and apathy.... by Emily Wierenga | Mar 1, 2013 | Burma, children, compassion, documentary, education, justice, ministry, motherhood, Myanmar, poverty, schooling, wealth
I was a single mother this week. Trent was gone on a ski trip with his students, and on the second day of his being gone, my boys finger-painted nude.They made forts in the living room which I had to fix every two minutes and they threw play-dough... by Emily Wierenga | Feb 27, 2013 | 40 Days of Water, alcohol, brennan manning, coffee, death, drink, Easter, eating disorders, Emily Maynard, food, guilt, Lent, numbers, poverty, sacrifice, sin, theology
Welcome to Imperfect Prose on Thursdays! This week’s prompt is FOOD. Recently, an editor asked me to compile all of my stats: numbers from Facebook and Twitter and blog, etcetera.Numbers undo me. I’m an eating disorder survivor. For seven years of my life,...