About two hours from our city there is a provincial park that houses an old dam that has been abandoned for nearly 70 years. In 1951, a more efficient dam was built and this old one was shut down and partly dismantled. There are endless hiking paths to explore in and through the old dam […]
Still Learning Patience—A Letter to My Dad
by on June 13, 2019 Leave a Comment
Dear Dad, A few months ago, I pulled out the bible you gave me when I graduated high school. It was a hard cover, mottled brown NIV, the pages tearing away at the spine. It’s well-worn. It travelled with me from those first months of Bible college in the UK, through college and university days, […]
Am I Good Enough?
by on May 30, 2019 Leave a Comment
by Belinda Bauman | Twitter: @belindajbauman | Instagram: @belidajbauman The following is an except from Belinda Bauman’s new book Brave Souls available now from Intervarsity Press and all of your favourite book sellers. Used with permission. What if empathy could save us? Make no mistake, I knew climbing Kilimanjaro would not be easy. For this reason, […]
Dear Rachel, You Named Us Women of Valor
by on May 5, 2019 Leave a Comment
Rachel Held Evans named us. In 2012, when The Year Of Biblical Womanhood was published, there was one particular gift in there that still echoes in my heart. Rachel Held Evans had found a blessing—not just for Jewish women on a Friday night, but for all women. She found an olam—an ancient way—built into Hebrew […]
The Year of My Undoing
by on April 25, 2019 Leave a Comment
There was a woman I held dear. She was not my mother but she loved me as her own. I picked flowers in her yard and swung in her hammock and watched her make art. I watched her in the year of her undoing. I quietly observed the way her mind puzzled, distorted, melted even. […]
