Swinging on the Garden Gate
Writing became this exploration of incarnation, deeply related to the faith of my upbringing. The writing naturally took me beyond sexual identity.
memoir
An Unfinished Death
After a difficult relationship, Jill has one more struggle with her Dutch father-in-law Izaak, accepting his decision to die by euthanasia while still relatively healthy at 85.
Growing up Gay in a Fractured Land
Taylor Brorby talks about toxic masculinity, activism, North Dakota, and his experience with a Reconciling in Christ church within the ELCA.
Wait for God to Notice
The dangers of a missionary childhood in Uganda ran from snakes, ants, and monkeys to the forces of Idi Amin, all captured in rich prose through her memories and her mother's letters in this memoir by Sari Fordham.
Marinating in Spirit
Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew reviews Cameron Dezen Hammon's debut spiritual memoir This is My Body: A Memoir of Religious and Romantic Obsession.
Confessions of a Repentant “Do-Gooder”
Britney Winn Lee's first two books were published this year, including Deconstructed Do-Gooder and The Boy with Big, Big Feelings.
Seeing with God’s Eyes
Karen González has written a "hermeneutics of immigration" in her new book The God Who Sees: Immigrants, the Bible, and the Journey to Belong.
From Journaling to Memoir: Making Sense of Your Inner World
On June 17-23, a group of women writers gathered for a new summer writing workshop on journaling and memoir led by Renita Weems and Kathryn Stanley.
Loving and Leaving a Church
In her memoir Loving and Leaving a Church, Barbara Melosh explores the challenges of being a mainline pastor in a declining congregation.
Memoir in the Moment of Dread
What happens after the dreaded thing happens? On the same day that her spiritual memoir was launched, Rachel Marie Stone learned her mother has cancer.
