HeyJaredHonest To Goodness
A collection of thoughts about the intersection of women, the church, misogyny, marriage, divorce, motherhood, and a myriad other things that affect God's daughters.
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In Defense of Romantic Innocence (opens the original)
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I’ve been thinking a lot about one of my kids’ favorite teeny-bopper movies, The Princess Diaries, this week.It’s a fluff film, not a hard-hitting, life-altering saga like Lord of the Rings or American History X or even Forrest Gump. But there’s a scene in the film that keeps playing over and over in my mind. It’s a scene where 15-year-old Mia Thermopolis confides in her mother this romantically awkward vision she has for her first real kiss. In M
Pearl Clutcher, Reporting for Duty (opens the original)
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One of the first things you learn when you advocate for causes that fuel your passion is that there is always something more important than whatever you happen to be talking about. Always.And condescending people everywhere will be happy to tell you what you should be spending your time and energy on instead. Something that “actually matters.”You will also learn to hate the word “actually.”Want to keep men out of women’s spaces? That’s cute. Did you know there’s an environmental crisis to avert
Take the Plastic Off the Dang Couch (opens the original)
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In 8th grade, a friend invited me over after school. The second we walked into her house, I felt it: that specific, familiar tightness in my gut that meant we were walking on eggshells.The living room confirmed what my gut was already screaming. Every piece of furniture sat wrapped in its original plastic covering, arranged like nobody actually lived there. There were visible vacuum lines on the carpet. Everything was in its appropriate place. But I was only thirteen, and I failed to connect the
When No One Tells the Pastor “No.” (opens the original)
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Nearly every red flag in the Mica Miller tragedy was visible from the pews.For those who haven’t watched the new Netflix documentary “Death of the Pastor’s Wife” or followed along in the national headlines related to this story, here’s the abbreviated version: John Paul (JP) Miller was the head pastor of a church in Myrtle Beach South Carolina called “<a href="ht
Oh the Things You Can Do! (opens the original)
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Of all the books I read aloud to my children, the one I’ve practically memorized, the one that still catches me off guard with how well it applies to my life as an adult, is “Oh the Places You’ll Go” by Dr. Seuss. I’ve long appreciated its encouraging “you can do it” approach to life alongside its candid warning that sometimes life is just gonna suck for a little while, and you have a responsibility to “face up to your problems whatever they are.” It reads like a road map to life’s seasons.It oc
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