Pardon the Interruption: A Meditation on Luke 1:26-36
In this Advent sermon, Dan Rhodes engages the deeply disturbing and yet hopeful interruption of the angel Gabriel to Mary, when he announces that she will bear the Christ-child.
View ArticleInvisible Grief? Theological Reflections on Miscarriage
Nicole Johnson offers some theological reflections from women who have experienced the trauma of miscarriage.
View ArticleOrigin Stories
My mother idolized the pampas grass and my father idolized the peppers that fell when I was born.
View ArticleNaming the Animals
Brigid Andrews writes about the trauma of birthing and postpartum depression.
View ArticleThree Prayers and a Consummation
Two women whose strategies for living a meaningful life conflict vie for ownership of an antique family barn.
View ArticlePardon the Interruption: A Meditation on Luke 1:26-36
Inevitably, it always occurs at the most inconvenient time. You know what I mean. After a long, exhausting day at work, you sit down with a warm cup of tea to catch up on Gossip Girl, and that’s when...
View ArticleInvisible Grief? Theological Reflections on Miscarriage
It is the hard work of mothering always to remember. —Walter Brueggemann About six minutes into what will become a ninety-minute conversation, the woman on the other side of the kitchen table begins...
View ArticleOrigin Stories
He built a greenhouse: clear walls, cathedral ceiling. He smoked pipes and talked peppers, red peppers. He looked at my mother in yellow polyester shorts, her pink skin hot and long below them, covered...
View ArticleNaming the Animals
I found the video of the lambing to be a bit gross, with the blood and amniotic fluid gushing onto the hay and dirt. I was OK with the elephant birth as long as the sound was off. Two-year-old Clara...
View ArticleThree Prayers and a Consummation
While her husband tried to explain to their two kids why they had to skip their Little League tournament in order to attend their grandmother’s church (and that, no, they couldn’t wear their uniforms,...
View ArticleThere Will Be Pain in Childbearing
I first discovered I was pregnant in the early days of December 2011. We were living in Chicago at the time, a city almost sure to be blanketed in snow during the Christmas season. I remember sitting...
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