Heresy in the Heartland

Some of you have kindly inquired about my absence from this blog. With Bill Gothard now publicly exposed for the predatory mountebank he ...

I wrote this post months ago, but am only just posting now: A new comedy series released on Netflix in March resonated strongly with m...

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. I grew up in an abusive home. Love and warmth and fun were there, too, but it was a ve...

Recently a friend described a situation as "awkward" and I laughed. Not because it wasn't true, but because I spent decades...

Continued from Talking to Myself January-February 2001 Back in Kansas, Chris was as frustrated with the slow pace as I was. Scott* w...

This installment has been the most difficult to think about and wrap words around. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of tim...

While I was typing up the latest segment of our courtship story, my twelve-year-old asked what I was working on. I shared some of the high...