I’m finally getting a chance to delve into Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female & Evangelical. Though I’ve been part of this project forever, I hadn’t really had or made time to read the other essays. On Sunday, I had the chance…

Follow me down my current mental wormhole…

My daydreaming about moving back to the Bay Area crossed moments with an email from a writer friend who works at a writers’ co-op in NYC. That led me to google shared writing spaces in SF because, let’s…

Despite the relative seriousness of my novels, everyone who knows me knows I love to laugh. Yesss-ah-do! (As Mary Murphy might say.) There’s a lot going on in the world to cry about, that’s for sure. But for me, losing my sense of humor…

• Amanda Coppedge interviews me on her blog about Once Was Lost, and about being a writer who is a Christian, but not a “Christian writer.” I expect I’ll be engaging in lots of conversations about this over the coming year, which is fine…
  
  
  
  
  

So, a long long time ago, I was invited by Hannah Faith Notess to submit an essay for a potential anthology that was then called Growing Up Churched, and I wrote this…