There was once was a little girl, raised in the Village. The Village was a utopia, walled off for protection and insulated from the world. Even the families in the girl’s section of the Village did not see each other very often, but lived peaceably, like hermits, in accordance with the Code. When the girlContinueContinue reading “The Lighthouse Girl”
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Movie Review: Mars Hill Church’s ‘Good Friday’ film
Source: Mars Hill Church Editorial Note: I wrote this post in 2013, before The Seattle Times reported on Mars Hill Church’s senior pastor Mark Driscoll’s spiritual abuse in 2014, and long before the 2021 release of The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill podcast by Christianity Today. After I read the victim’s stories describing Driscoll’sContinueContinue reading “Movie Review: Mars Hill Church’s ‘Good Friday’ film”
The Herdsman, the Maiden and the Coyotes: A Fable
Once upon a time, a little girl sat in a field releasing the fuzz from seeded dandelions and watching the wind gather the wisps into the sky as it tousled her hair. Sometimes, she danced with the wind, her blue skirt swishing to synchronize with its rhythm. One day the whimsy of her dance ledContinueContinue reading “The Herdsman, the Maiden and the Coyotes: A Fable”
Self-injury: A Worldview
“Told I talked too muchmade too much noiseI took up a silent hobby—Bleeding.”― S. Marie Self harm. When the darkness inside at last leaks out and mars your body. The reasons most people give for hurting themselves are complicated and diverse. Verbalizing the pain, punishing and satiating guilt, desiring control, a grasping to keep outContinueContinue reading “Self-injury: A Worldview”
Defending God? Or just loving God
The flogging scene in The Thorn from the 2009 production | Photo: Jonathan Betz Photography. Last spring, my friend Luke from the group of awesome online writers I hang out with shared a quote on Facebook that has haunted me, floating in and out of my daily conversations. “Rebuke no one, revile no one, notContinueContinue reading “Defending God? Or just loving God”
Eleanor Skelton 