This is my final post. It’s been a year or so since I took a break from the Interwebs–away from writing online, from traveling and speaking, from Tweeting and Facebooking and Snapchatting and the like. … Read More
May It Be Light and Only Light
It has been three months since I said farewell to social media, sans a quick break to introduce our daughter to you. Those three months-they have been enough. They have been enough to show me … Read More
Let Your No Be Your Yes
Just because you may hear “no” a million times doesn’t mean that the biggest YES–the calling for you to change the world in whatever you way you are meant to change it–diminishes. The “no” is … Read More
To All The Mothers Who Will Never Hold Their Babies on Mother’s Day
I never realized how weird Mother’s Day is when you’ve lost a child; I always heard it, but I didn’t understand. Now, in a poppy-seed-sized way, I do. So, if you are missing your own child, regardless of how or when he or she departed, know you are not alone, and I wish you the happiest of Mother’s Day. Nothing will ever change the fact that you are a mother.
Look What God Did
Dear 25 year old Anne, It’s me. Anne. Today you…me…we…? turn 35. Holy Moses, has it been a decade? I wanted to tell you four words: “Look what God did.” 25 year old Anne, 2005 was … Read More
Why the American Church is Not Going to Hell in a Hand Basket
I know what the statistics say about the future of the evangelical American church. Our buildings are bigger, our lights are brighter, our programs are sleeker, our preachers are teaching, our pastors are shepherding and … Read More
Fight for Unity, or Don’t Fight at All: My Plea for Christians to Keep Your Opinions To Yourself
When I was sixteen, my dad left the ministry. He did nothing wrong, but it was an ugly church-wide meeting full of Southern obstinacy. I saw men in our small church yelling at each other, … Read More
Blogging Isn’t What it Used to Be…And that’s Okay.
Several times a week, I log into the dashboard of my blog and think I have something to write. I could write about true freedom, and how that means willingly accepting my identity as a slave to Christ, … Read More
Grace in the Mundane
When you feel longing creep in as you pull your feet through the mud of the daily, command your spirit to rejoice. If the rocks cry out, imagine the will it takes to get a … Read More