Heresy in the Heartland

Heavens, it’s been nearly 20 years now.  Since Shyamalan’s The Village came out in theaters and we were never the same.  We were spellbound...

 As I participate in this year's Conference on Religious Trauma, this piece has been inspiring me.  (Like most of my trauma-inspired art...

All the news this week (nearly forgotten already--topics move so fast--but we had a funeral and other stuff going on, too) about book bannin...

I’m eating rhubarb pie on the patio, watching a pair of chickadees hover over the wet lawn, listening to the cool wind rustle through the tr...

A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing. A time to search and a time to give up a...

Like many people, I've spent a lot of time in my head the last year.  It's not unlike my childhood when I pretended my home was *act...

  According to my mom's nursing textbooks, a stage of labor. The worst part, I gathered from her friends. Tugging and stretching from th...