HeyJaredGrowing Into Kinship
Relearning how to think & feel & pray & live post-evangelicalism
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On rigid gender roles, hidden anti-LGBTQ beliefs, demasculinizing scripture, and more (opens the original)
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Friends,When you launch a book into the world, often the first few months after it publishes are full of excitement. It’s a time that’s intensely focused on that book. And then, well, things slowly quiet down. And that’s okay. Being in book publicity mode can be fun and exciting, but it’s not a state I want to be in all the time. Now that we’re coming up on three years (!) since Nice Churchy Patriarchy: Reclaiming Women’s Humanity from Evangelic
I no longer identify as a “childless cat lady”... (opens the original)
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Friends,I’m currently looking for a good new home for a sticker a friend once gave me: “childless cat lady.” It’s purple and sparkly and very cute, and it’s lived on my fridge for a while now.Don’t get me wrong. I’m here for the childless cat ladies, and I’ve very much enjoyed being one. But I’m looking to re-home that sticker because I’m currently very pregnant.If all goes well, sometime in the next month or so I’ll still be a cat lady, just a cat lady with one child. And if the worst happened,
“Let your light shine” (opens the original)
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Friends,Earlier this week I was trying to organize my closet and came across some really lovely, special, meaningful, touching notes from students, from back in my evangelical college ministry days. Lovely, special, meaningful, and touching—and, in some cases, complicated. Like the one that said something like, “I’m so inspired by how happy you are all the time.”Friends, I was not happy all the time. I’m glad I was able to show up for the college students I worked with with some measure of warmt
On prayer, and on pain (opens the original)
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Friends,This week I wanted to draw your attention to two things I got to write for the September/October issue of Sojourners Magazine: a commentary piece on prayer, and a book review of Darcey Steinke’s This Is the Door</sp
I have something in common with MAHA Moms? (opens the original)
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Friends,I’m still chewing on a New York Times article I came across this week: “MAHA Moms Take on Coal.”Some highlights from the article, as I understand it:Our current US administration has been aggressively trying to fund and expand the coal industry, which is, of course, exactly the wrong thing to be doing in a time of climate crisis.In particular, they’re trying to po
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