Where Are All the Cool Kids?
I grew up hearing, believing and sometimes witnessing that women could be: attractive, but not smart; athletic, but not feminine; … Christian, but not cool. With this in mind, I crafted my life and spent a lot of time trying to
Separated Sundays
“It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday morning.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. *My disclaimer is that I grew up attending Pentecostal and Holiness churches. I later attended Baptist and AME
All the Single Ladies
I listened to a sermon a few weeks ago about being single that resonated with me in more ways than I imagined, I wanted to share it with every single woman I know. But I also found that the sermon
Liverpool Won (and the things I leave behind)!
*It's ironic that I write this post on the 7th year anniversary of my blog. As 7 is the spiritual number for completion, I too feel a bit more complete
The Prayer Process
When I was a child, my mom taught me to pray the “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray to the Lord my soul you keep …” prayer. I imagine that I didn’t learn the “Our Father’s Prayer”
The Art of Doing Nothing, i.e. Stillness
Over a decade ago a friend bought me The Art of Doing Nothing as a gift. I am sure some series of conversations prompted her to make the purchase. It took me another year or so to finally read the
The Gift
I CANNOT believe it is May already! Where has time gone? It seems unreal that I have been abroad for 3 and a half months. So much has happened! Sidebar: I find it both fascinating and frightening that more transformation
All I Have I Give Freely
On last week one of my closest friends arrived to visit me in the U.K. Her visit occurs on the culmination of five other friends “crossing the pond” to explore my temporary home and see a few new sights. While
The Patient Potter …
Image from: https://www.poemsbycc.com/ThePotter.html In one of my previous posts, I referenced a number of interviews I listened to on YouTube. Today’s blog post was inspired by an interview conducted by Dr. Frank Thomas with Rev. Dr. Claudette Anderson Copeland: https://youtu.be/9eQYGSLkEeE. Have you ever
A New Thing
Photo taken from: http://www.danaarcuri.com/blog/god-is-doing-a-new-thing - also a great post! I visited Atlanta for the first time while I was in high school participating in a college tour – from that moment I knew I wanted to attend college there. A few