Yesterday was a graphic example to me how the “radical submission” and “always smile, never complain” of soft or hard complementarianism just does not work on so many levels. We’ve tried it, and were both miserable for those years. It darn near ruined our marriage. Good thing too, because I’m not sure how I would…
Over the years one of the things I’ve loved the most about my faith has been the turning of the liturgical year. In my old church I was the one that decorated for every holiday. On Easter draping the large cross behind the pulpit with rich and lavish purple cloth I’d ironed smooth. With preparing…
See the above picture? Grapefruit are rare here, and I have a grapefruit tree sheltering the picture window in my bedroom. I never know each year if there will be fruit. I took that photo almost exactly a year ago. Today there’s zero fruit on the tree. We had a longer very intense rainy season…