About

Welcome!

Rise up from the stump of sorrow, and be green also
like the diligent leaves
A lifetime isn’t long enough for the beauty of this world
and the responsibilities of your life.
(Mary Oliver, “The Leaf and the Cloud”)

About the blog…

After I finished graduate school, I was hungry for a different kind of writing — a non-academic, soul-bearing, spiritually-explorative kind of writing.

This blog was created as a space where I could write about my faith, not just my theology. To write about my imperfect spirituality, not constructed doctrine.

Here I share about things like my belief in the unbelievable love of God, my desire to live fully alive, and my conviction that we should worship with our whole bodies.

I tell stories about the lessons I have learned in mundane places, like the laundromat and the dentist. And I talk about what I’ve been reading and what’s next on my bookshelf.

Thanks for taking time to be here! Please stay a while and share in the conversation!

About me…

I’m a Midwestern girl at heart who has lived on both coasts.

I have guided canoe trips, worked at a plant nursery, and taught Environmental Science and Civic Engagement. Last year, I served an Americorps term of service creating positive school climates — in the classroom and on the playground — at under-resourced elementary schools across Oakland.

I recently relocated to New England where I direct youth and family ministry and support development at an educational nonprofit.

My theology bears the marks of the many places and people I have loved — from the conservative evangelicals of my hometown, to the feminist Catholic professors who taught me in college, to my queer seminary classmates.

I have learned something valuable about Jesus from all of them and look forward to what my next adventure will teach me about the deep, wide love of God.

I love living in community, biking to work, reading fantasy novels, and taking pictures of bees on flowers.