by Emily Wierenga | Apr 17, 2013 | abuse, apology, book giveaway, brennan manning, christian, convictions, feminism, gender issue, imperfect prose on thursdays, Jen Hatmaker, manhood, prayers, servanthood post, stories, trigger, womanhood, writer
I’m not sure but that there isn’t a time in every one’s life when we’re called–To stand up for what we believe in. But before we stand, we have to know what we believe, and before I became a wife and a mother, I didn’t really know.I didn’t know the way I would... by Emily Wierenga | Apr 13, 2013 | Abba father, childhood, church, femininity, feminism, holy spirit, manhood, men, spirituality, womanhood
I’m sitting on the steps after a run. Spring has finally come to Alberta, and the air smells like new things: like garden dirt and budding trees and unsung heroes: fallen leaves and broken stems.Snow has done a number but it’s left everything rested and... by Emily Wierenga | Apr 8, 2013 | a dare to love yourself, adoption, children, Emily Wierenga, flower patch farmgirl, infertility, life-giver, mom in the mirror, pregnancy, shannan martin, The Love Dare, womanhood
Week after week we sat on the edge of the tiny sofa in the doctor’s office. Cory held my hand. We kept it light, willing success to float down from the drop-ceiling tiles and settle on us through the sheer force of our collective certainty. It was no big deal.... by Emily Wierenga | Apr 2, 2013 | Biblical womanhood, evangelical feminism, feminism, husband, leadership, marriage, prodigal magazine, servant-hood, spiritual mothers, submission, wife, woman's manifesto, womanhood, women pastors
Dear sisters, dear spiritual mothers and daughters and midwives and stay at home mamas;Dear women pastors and elders and janitors and lawyers and teachers and artists,I celebrate us. I think this is obvious from my Woman’s Manifesto.But.I fear for us too.I fear... by Emily Wierenga | Mar 15, 2013 | Abbie Smith, beauty, book giveaway, celibate sex, creation, femininity, God, marriage, sex trafficking, sexuality, singleness, womanhood
I’m excited to welcome Abbie Smith of Unsteady Saint, author of the newly released Celibate Sex, to my site today, to share part of her book with you and offer a giveaway.Lately, I’ve been a witness to elements of beauty in the African American... by Emily Wierenga | Mar 12, 2013 | advice, children, church, families, grandmothers, ladies, mothers, relationship, self-help, spiritual mothers, womanhood
She hummed a song to us in Dutch, and I listened with my elbows on the table, to this woman with sterling silver hair.We were there, young moms and grandmothers, gathered around round tables with coffee mugs and plates of squares, learning from each other. It felt...