A correction: I realize saying “Father in Heaven” is confusing …. Even though I lean towards universal salvation, I’m not trying to claim one way or another where Dobson is. I meant “Heavenly Father” as a name for God & play on parenthood. Clarifying now. Thanks!

(This is obviously also true in same gender couples, and with non-birthing parents!)

In a country where maternity leave is seen as a luxury, don’t even get me started on how paternity leave is also a women’s health issue.

It is a lie that women have to do all the childcare AND work for less pay AND have no inconvenient needs.

Also yt Christian nationalism: “how dare women need time off to heal, care for baby,endure emotional & physical changes that make you ‘unattractive,’ & then have children that are seen & heard in public!”

White Christian patriarchal nationalism: “the only way women can fulfill divine purpose is to have babies!”

But I believe in a God who listens to our prayers. And if you feel helpless I beg you to pray for the grieving and the dead. It’s not useless or dumb or trite. It’s lifting your soul up to its natural bent towards crying out with all whose souls are breaking.

Do not let that be taken from you.

🩷 praying for you. I was told “not yet” in my ordination process and it felt like the end of the world. But it was the greatest pivot that lead to where I am now. Praying there is something unseen that magnificently will unfold.

God is bigger than any question we can ask.

God delights in inviting us in to deeper mystery.

White supremacy, however, depends on compliance without wonder, clarity without delight, and binaries without beauty.