Last weekend I had the honor of preaching at the Affirmation of Baptism service where a slew of wonderful 10th graders got confirmed. This sermon is for them, but folks listening liked it too. So I thought I’d share. The text for the day was Luke 5:1-11: Once while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing in […]
As a woman, athlete, coach, and feminist I’m so excited to be speaking on The Jungle’s panel about gender equity in sports and education. It is a free, three part series at The Southern. I will be a part of the first panel on February 1. Come for the panel, stay for THE WOLVES, an […]
KGSA Foundation and I are doing a campaign to get a copy of Play Like a Girl to every girls’ soccer team at the 2018 Schwan’s Cup in Blaine this July in hopes of connecting amazing girls here with amazing girls in Kibera. We can get books for $10 a copy, so a small donation to the […]
This morning the task was to discuss the story of Judas betraying Jesus with two separate groups of high school students. We read John’s version, where the soldiers, police and Pharisees went after Jesus with lanterns, torches and weapons. Later, Simon Peter took out a sword and, before Jesus could tell him to put it […]
After a couple years of home practice, I recently returned to a yoga studio. There are so many advantages to practicing in community, one of which is the little nuggets of truth the yogi offers during class to meditate on. It’s part of what makes yoga feel holistic and replenishing. Some truths seem to come […]
If you are in the Twin Cities area on August 15, I’d be honored to see you at Open Book for the Play Like a Girl launch event! Please share this invite with other people in your life who may be interested. RSVP today! Subscribe to this blog Leave this field empty if you’re human:
The following is my Author’s Note from the upcoming Play Like a Girl. To read more, pre-order it today! It bothers some foreign visitors that the people at Kibera Girls Soccer Academy (KGSA) refer to the high school students as “girls.” Many teenagers in Western cultures are called young women or ladies, considering that seniors in high […]
Last Saturday morning, I was sitting on the couch totally content. My baby was snuggling on my chest. My two-year old sang along to the Beatles’ record he picked off the shelf. My spouse refilled my coffee cup. In that lovely moment, I had a breakthrough on an essay. I had been stuck for days […]
Muscle memory leads my absentminded, fatigued body away from the PICU to the elevators, through hallways and out to the parking ramp. I leave the hospital, drive downtown, enter another parking ramp, another elevator, another hallway, and walk into the waiting room for my own appointment. It’s totally surreal—to be the patient. Two weeks ago, […]
There was a person on my college campus who, at least once a week, wore a T-shirt that said, “So many books, so little time.” I chuckled at the shirt the first time I saw it, but now have felt that phrase profoundly as a working mom. Despite the need to come to peace with […]