by Emily Wierenga | Sep 23, 2013 | abstinence, motherhood, open letter, parenthood, purity, rape, sex, sexuality, sons, teaching, virginity
Dear Son, Life for you right now is Legos and Thomas the Train and Winnie the Pooh, but one day it will be cars and sports and the girls across the meadow. You’re three years old and learning manners and how to make your bed but one day, there will be... 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 | 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... by Emily Wierenga | Mar 11, 2013 | body image, forgiveness, mom in the mirror, Preston Yancey, rape, relationship, security, self-esteem, self-love
It’s A Love Dare, friends. A dare to love ourselves, and we’re meeting every Monday to discuss what this looks like.Today I’ve invited my friend, Preston Yancey, to share his views on how we perceive our worth. In this post, Preston...