Yesterday at The Refuge’s Sunday night gathering we had some cupcakes and sang happy 11th birthday to The Refuge. It’s hard for me to believe it’s been 11 years. When […]
Read Morei first started going to church on a regular basis when i was in high school. my boyfriend’s family became born-again christians while we were dating and i went with […]
Read Moreit was nice to have a little blog break, and when i get a little space and time i always end up back at some of the same questions-about-life like […]
Read Moremy husband jose has a theory about people. he says that in some weird ways, “we’re always going back to our abusive dads, trying to please them.” he doesn’t mean […]
Read Morelast month i had a one hour conversation with chris yaw from churchnext, which is dedicated to resources & support to nurture healthy churches in all kinds of different ways. […]
Read Moreone of my friends calls the typical contemporary typical church-system “the big ship.” they’re strong & powerful & plow through the ocean with confidence. they are dazzling and entertaining. many […]
Read Morehow many times have you all heard me talk about our “crazy” little church, the refuge? and about how people i know who are doing all kinds of wild […]
Read More* i wrote this last month & never got around to posting it. i’ve recently been thinking about it even more, how awesome it would be if we had […]
Read Morei have a black thumb. like if anything green enters my house–plants, flowers, yes even cactuses, within a week or two they are completely dead. it is funny to me […]
Read More“then God said, “let us make human beings in our image, to be like us.” – genesis 1:26, NLT this past week i saw a flurry of facebook posts about […]
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