I love history and I love story. I love the way we can look back to see forward. I love the way story connects us all. So I am so excited to share this guest post by my friend, Michelle DeRusha. She's worked to compile both a dynamic history that's anything but dull and a complex story of women that are much like you and I. Flawed, imperfect, average, and extraordinarily called by God, she introduces us to women we'll not soon forget in her new book, 50 Women Every Christian Should Know: Lessons …
Confessions of A Newbie Contributor
My stomach is creaking and groaning like planks in an old wooden porch. I am restless fingers and a timid heart. They hover above the keyboard tentative. Backspace devours the words as fast as I get them down. Nothing comes out right. I’ve imagined what my words would look like spread out a bit more. I keep a tiny corner of the internet with a readership I know mostly by name. But I dream in those quiet hours, when the clacking of my keyboard staves off the dark, that my words might find …
In Which I Would’ve Hated This Book: Spiritual Misfit
My friend, Michelle DeRusha wrote a book I would have hated in the fledgling days of faith. My opinion wouldn’t have been based on her writing, which slips easily between comedy confessional and poignant truth, a feat that is hard to do for the best of writers. My dislike would have stemmed from my gut reaction to her own fear and doubt. Spiritual Misfit: A Memoir of Uneasy Faith is the story of a faith lost and found, wrestled with and wondered at. Michelle tackles the trials of …
