What is a Wedding?
So I told my dad and my sister that I was going to get married without them there. I got married in a dress I bought off the internet. I wore heels that were a little scuffed up, ones I’d worn many times before. I got dressed without my sister to zip me. I took a moment in the bathroom alone, without my best friend asking me if I needed a getaway car.
To the Father of an Independent Daughter
She was one of those girls I’m drawn to. Messy and wild. Fire in her eyes. Grit in her spirit. She’s not the first of her type that has sat across from me, dreaming and boiling over with what God is doing in her. She’s not the first of her type who has shrugged off her relationship with her dad while swallowing her water.
You Should Grow Your Hair
You should grow your hair out, he told her. I like girls with long hair.
Book Review - Faithful: A Theology of Sex
In this 96-page book, Beth Felker Jones brings the discussion of sex out of the realm of untouchable and into the reality of our everyday lives.
Dear Single Girl (An Open Letter)
All those youth group sermons where you made lists of the qualities of the man you would marry - did anyone tell you that you can have a full, abundant life following the path God has laid out for you without waiting?