A Wilderness Life

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is my favorite novel. Some of you are rolling your eyes right now, because it's so stereotypical -- a female English major whose favorit...

AUGH. OK. Look. Most of the time I just roll my eyes at the psychology-isms that creep into Christian vocabulary, but I heard someone yest...

Whatever that means. Sometimes the mood strikes me to write a poem. And sometimes I do, and it's awful, and sometimes I do, and it...

Thoughts on blogging through Lent, in no particular order: It was SUCH a mistake to put numbers in the titles of these Lent posts. Yikes. ...

Seriously, how Type A do you have to be to blog EVERY. SINGLE. DAY? Apparently a whole lot more Type A than I am. Tomorrow I'll start po...

Stuff that I liked this week: Rebecca Black takes over FunnyOrDie ! Don Miller reviews Love Wins (epic). A new episode of The Cross ...

Does it make me a bad person that I just can't get worked up about the word "inerrancy"? Most people in the church I grew up i...

Oh well. Writing another paper this week, so my brain is again falling apart.

WASN'T THAT RIDICULOUS? (At this point, you're probably saying to yourself, "Now she's just posting so she can say she...

Seriously, it snowed last night. Probably an inch of wet, heavy snow. Friday is the first day of April. This week I'll finish the seri...

I am a sucker for the English Country House setting in books, movies, and TV. Murder mysteries, upstairs-downstairs type stuff, overwrought ...

I am RIGHT NOW watching the first Aussie Rules football game of the season. WOOOOOO! Basketball will always be first in my heart when it c...

Why do I always think I'll have LOADS of time and brain power to work on the blog while I'm on vacation? You'd think that after ...

Today in the car on my way back from seeing the fam in Indianapolis, I heard "The Cave" by Mumford & Sons, and then got home t...

So. In the field of psychology, there's this phenomenon called "cognitive dissonance." In simple terms, cognitive dissonance i...

Whew, this blogging every day thing is a trip, man. Just one day of, you know, doing stuff outside of my house with people and the whole t...

This is an appropriate follow-up to yesterday's post, actually.  If you don't know the story behind this beautiful hymn, grab a tiss...

This past week I was incredibly productive. I wrote a paper, got my tax stuff organized, worked on (and finished!) grades, cleaned my house,...

I can't believe I'm doing this.  I can't believe I'm going to talk about Rob Bell, just like every other freakin' person...