by Emily Wierenga | Nov 4, 2013 | bible, church, daddy issues, doubt, father, God, gospel, heresy, infallible, Jesus, new testament, old testament, questions, scripture, sin, trinity, truth
via Emily Jay photographyI love Jesus. I’ve loved him since I was a little girl in a mushroom cut with round plastic glasses and pink sweatpants. He was there for me when I had no friends because we moved ten times before I turned seven. He was there for me when... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 10, 2013 | alcohol, alcoholism, drinking, gluttony, prodigal magazine, sin, wine
I used to have a glass of wine most evenings to unwind. I did it for years. My husband makes wine and beer so it’s as available as water and a heck of a lot tastier and it was only ever one or two glasses at the most.Yet I realized, recently, that I had a... 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 | Jul 15, 2013 | faith, God, hypocrisy, ink, Jesus, Leviticus, Old Testament rules, piercings, sin, tattoos
This is me a couple of years ago: dreads, stretched ears, piercings, and tats.I have three tattoos. And I love Jesus.A number of people have called me a hypocrite over the past week, regarding my latest tat (the one I got with my husband–you can read about it... 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,... by Emily Wierenga | Nov 28, 2012 | church, gospel, human, hypocrisy, imperfect prose on thursdays, integrity, Jesus, lies, love, pastors, priest, sin
The Last Supper by e. wierenga (http://www.etsy.com/shop/canvaschild) Church wasn’t safe for me growing up. It was a place where we all had to pretend to be something we weren’t. On the drive home each Sunday, we would all be so cranky and tired, Dad would often have...