2019-06-05 20:48
In my e-newsletter Field Notes, we have an “Ask Sarah” section where people can send in their questions to me and I try to answer them in future editions. Usually those quest… Read More
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2018-12-05 17:24
Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Loved) by Kate C. Bowler – One of my most beloved books this year. Kate’s story is as powerful as her writing and… Read More
2018-11-22 13:00
It’s not even Advent so I know I’m taking my life in my hands when I wish all of you, including the liturgical purists, a Merry Christmas but… my friends and dear readers… Read More
2018-10-01 18:08
I thought I’d mention here that in lieu of blogging, I’ve taken to devoting my time to the creation of Field Notes, my monthly e-newsletter.
I think you’d like it.
Each mo… Read More
2018-08-23 15:58
As most of you know, eighteen months ago, I was in a serious car accident. Despite my injuries, I actually felt pretty lucky to get off as easily as I did given the situation. As I slowly he… Read More
2018-04-11 19:12
Welcome back to our series on Books to Empower!
Today: my favourite books to empower women who preach!
This is focused on resources specifically for women who preach or written by wome… Read More
2018-04-06 00:25
I was not at a typical women’s retreat.
For one thing, there wasn’t any wifi.
We were nearly two hours outside of Vancouver, in the shadow of Mount Cheam among the trees and th… Read More
2018-03-28 12:00
A two-day gathering for the wonderers, the wanderers, the status-quo upenders, and spiritual refugees…
Basically …. this is for you.
My dear friend Rachel Hel… Read More
2018-03-05 18:40
It was just an honest miscommunication. We thought one person was driving our daughter home and it turned out that someone else was driving her home, someone well-known to her friend but unk… Read More
2018-01-10 18:20
“Be the weirdo who dares to enjoy.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
I’m a knitter.
Yes, I mean actual knitting – yarn, needles, piles of knitting pattern books based on lit… Read More
2018-01-03 18:57
A few years ago, I shared a short devotional and then a prayer at a popular women’s conference. In addition to the sold out venue, there was a live-stream of the event to more than 100… Read More
2018-01-01 00:45
A couple of weeks ago, I took some time to write our family Christmas letter. Ever since the year we were first married, I have written a big too-long newsy letter to our friends and family… Read More
2017-12-21 19:19
I am such a sucker for “best of” year end rankings. Even though I go see exactly 1 or 2 new movies a year, I read all of the year-end lists like a film devotee. Admittedly, I&rsq&hell…Read More
2017-12-06 20:18
Welcome back to our series on Books to Empower!
Next up are these inspiring books: my favourite chapter books to empower girls! I was deeply formed by the reading I did as a child… Read More
2017-11-28 20:03
Hello, my friends! The season of Advent is nearly upon us and so I wanted to pass along a few recommendations that have been meaningful for our family. I thought we could take a bit of… Read More
2017-11-22 13:00
Welcome to my annual Christmas Gift Guide to Empower Women!
Every year I post a Christmas Gift Guide on my blog but this year it has been kicked up to ALL OF THE NOTCHE… Read More
2017-11-14 22:03
Welcome back to our series on Books to Empower!
Next up are these wonderful books: my favourite picture books to empower girls! I was deeply shaped by the reading I did as a child… Read More
2017-11-08 22:23
Few things make me happier than books and empowering women so this post just might the best Venn diagram ever.
I am often asked by readers to recommend my favourite books for empowering wome… Read More
2017-10-18 18:28
Really, this is all the women’s fault.
I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised by that.
More than thirty years ago, John and Beth McHoul arrived in Haiti from the United States as m… Read More
2017-10-06 18:30
“This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It’s adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike “What’s next, Papa?&rdq&helli…Read More
2017-09-05 18:06
It’s the first day of school ’round these parts. We have spent the past week getting new haircuts and new inside shoes, new jeans and new permission slips. The tinies-who-are-no… Read More
2017-07-10 21:29
For me, summer is almost always all about novels and memoirs. So let’s take some time today to talk about books, movies, television shows, and podcasts! Let the relaxing begin…… Read More
2017-07-05 16:48
It’s been hard, oh, I know that.
It’s been humbling and it has felt like nothing is working and it’s all uphill and you’re wondering why you even bother. It has felt… Read More
2017-06-16 05:00
We talked for a long time that night, this growing-up child and me. It had been a hard day: tears, a temper, frustrations, poor choices, consequences. We rested on a twin bed together, equa… Read More
2017-06-08 21:37
These notes are from a writer’s workshop I presented at Princeton Theological Seminary’s Frederick Buechner Writer’s Workshop on June 7-8, 2017. It’s not the ful… Read More
2017-05-25 01:59
We were all done having babies, our big three now bright persons in their own right, when Maggie was born. We had to get a new crib, a new car seat, new baby clothes: everything new but the… Read More
2017-05-04 21:08
****this post contains a few spoilers for the new Anne series so stop reading if you don’t want to know***
When our eldest daughter was born, I did a very poor job of pretending we we… Read More
2017-03-11 22:44
One of my most vivid childhood memories is of my mother and my father standing at our kitchen sink in Winnipeg surrounded by the last empty bottles, big smiles on their faces as my mot… Read More
2017-03-08 20:29
I want to pray for you today in one of the ways I’ve been praying for years now. Sometimes my prayers have words, sometimes my prayers manifest as tears or as laughter or as longings… Read More
2017-03-07 23:45
Our youngest daughter, Maggie, is about to turn two years old. We celebrated on the weekend with a grilled cheese party (what is the point of serving food at a party the guest of honour does… Read More
2017-02-08 18:43
Big news, my friends!
The e-book version of my first book Jesus Feminist is now on sale for just $3.99!
That Seinfeld GIF is totally for my sister who is still obsessed wi… Read More
2017-01-24 18:20
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Well, hasn’t this been a … fun week?
Jesus made a feminist out of me.
It’s true.
I can’t make apologies for it, even though I… Read More
2016-12-28 17:45
I have participated in the #OneWord365 movement for a few years now. Instead of making a long list of (likely to be abandoned) resolutions, you choose simply one word to guide your year.
The… Read More
2016-12-22 18:45
Yesterday was the winter solstice. For us northerners, it is the longest night of our year. I turned on our lamps at 2:30 in the afternoon, the sun was nearly gone by 3:20 p.m. but the light… Read More
2016-12-16 22:35
When my eldest daughter was a wee little baby of 6 months old, we signed up for swim lessons. I don’t know why I did this but it seemed like something good parents did – swimming… Read More
2016-12-14 19:01
It’s time for my yearly round-up of my most popular posts written in 2016! I think these are a pretty good representation of the year and my place in the world right now so I hope… Read More
2016-12-05 20:27
My 5 Favourite Fiction Books of 2016
Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
The Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny. (Here are the books in order. Just… Read More
2016-11-11 22:40
My grandpa was a good-looking kid from the Canadian prairie when he marched away to war. He was shot on the side of a hill in Italy during a pre-dawn raid. He fell in the cold, thick mud whi… Read More
2016-11-07 16:07
I’ve had some experiences of disagreement recently. This happens in all of our lives, of course, but I find that this is a season when it’s happening more and more for those of u… Read More
2016-11-01 17:42
Following Jesus is a lifetime of trying to change the world and running straight into the truth that it’s we ourselves who need to be saved.
This week, I have been challenged by a stor… Read More
2016-10-17 17:15
The temptation is silence. The temptation is to go get busy doing something else. The temptation is pick up things that don’t really matter, not really, because then our arms will be f… Read More
2016-09-07 18:13
“I’ve been thinking about an old story in Acts lately. In the heady early days of the Church, Peter and John were once again arrested for preaching Christ and His resurrection. T… Read More
2016-09-03 02:21
The rain is coming down in sheets. It is pounding on the street, creating rivers in the gutters and washing away the grime of the summer. We open up all of the windows and breathe deeply of… Read More
2016-08-22 20:04
I hurt my back a month ago. I kept pushing through and pushing through, taking Aleve and visiting a chiropractor and a physiotherapist sporadically and never ever slowing down. I went to Co… Read More
2016-08-15 23:56
Hey, hi, how are you doing? Do we have time for a nice newsy old-fashioned update?
I think it’s official: I should probably stop referring to my children as “the tinies.&rd&helli…Read More
2016-07-25 02:32
The older three tinies went blueberry picking with a family friend this weekend. They all went out into the sunshine and two hours later, me and baby Maggie picked them up at the farm… Read More
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2016-07-04 03:01
We chose each other.
Years ago, when we were young and naive and hopeful, when we thought we were busy because we were in university, when he drove an ’86 Monte Carlo and I wore fraye… Read More
2016-06-23 17:31
It’s been far too long since we’ve chatted about something fun like books and I think we could use a bit of fun. I am, as my husband lovingly calls me, a pseudo-hermit bookworm… Read More
2016-05-04 17:36
Little known fact: I’m actually a marketer by trade and training. Yep. I studied marketing and communications for my undergraduate degree and then I spent more than ten years work… Read More
2016-04-21 03:15
When I was 18 years old, I moved away from home for university. And I didn’t just move into residence, I went all the way from my home in Calgary, Alberta to Tulsa, Oklahoma in the day… Read More
2016-04-18 15:26
Sometimes resurrection feels like spring cleaning. First we have to admit to the dirt and the mess, stomp around asking if the people who live here think they live in a barn. We have to scru… Read More
2016-04-12 14:47
“Fair warning: I’m not a preacher; I’m a writer.”
That’s what I used tell crowds and congregations as I stood up with microphone in one hand and my Bible in the… Read More
2016-03-29 17:50
One of my major spiritual awakenings happened because of Rice Krispies.
It’s true. During my second maternity leave when I was a fairly new mum with only two… Read More
2016-03-21 15:18
For those who don’t know, we moved into a new-to-us home last summer. (Because apparently we are just a little ridiculous – while in the midst of a new baby and a new book… Read More
2016-03-18 00:56
You know, for a girl, you can really preach.
I normally don’t read books by girls but I read your book
I never listen in while I’m running sound for these lady things but I list… Read More
2016-03-08 04:27
Dearest Maggie Love:
Today we are marking one year of glorious life with you. I have so many things I want to tell you, stories I want to remember, moments I’ve tucked into my heart t… Read More
2016-02-24 04:00
As a response to my post here, here is a list of resources for couples who would like to shape their marriage on the biblically-based idea of mutual submission (often called &ldqu&helli…Read More
2016-02-16 17:50
It’s been a weird few days here. Brian and I have spent the last couple of days talking about starting a marriage – I don’t know what to call it – a collectiv… Read More
2016-02-09 17:43
I found myself wandering into the Anglican Church many years ago. I still have no idea why I did this. I was craving an encounter with the Spirit, but my grief had erected too great a wall… Read More
2016-02-03 21:25
Our last little baby doesn’t sleep. She is now nearly eleven months old and I am too old for this. She falls asleep easily, she is happy and content, she naps beautifully, she… Read More
2016-01-18 00:45
I have been feeling creatively empty. It’s a combination of a few things that are real: the baby won’t sleep, I have four children and there aren’t enough hours in the day… Read More
2016-01-13 01:40
In the moments when we wonder why we bother, when we feel futile and small and ridiculous, when we feel misunderstood and mischaracterized, when we are paying a price, it’s in those mo… Read More
2015-12-30 18:04
Someday I know I’ll be that lady in the grocery store, you know the one, the one who stops young mothers or fathers with toddlers in the little front seat cart seat with kids hanging… Read More
2015-12-24 01:44
This is the final part of a series of Advent Sunday night candle meditations.
Isaiah 9:2-7
The people who walk in darkness will see a great light.For those who live… Read More
2015-12-20 17:01
This is the fourth part of a series of Advent Sunday night candle meditations.
Isaiah 16:4-5
“When this is all over,” Judah answers, “the tyrant toppled, The killing… Read More
2015-12-15 17:47
It was a full year around the blog even if I wasn’t writing as often as in years past. The top ten posts are below and it’s a mish-mash of editorializing and story-telling and n… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Haiti makes Walter Brueggemann make a bit more sense to me. The Bruegg (as I affectionately and irreverantly think of him) is the theologian who has been wrecking building my life over the p… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I’m here beside you. I’m here beside you: as we watch a steady stream of our children and our friends and our mentors walk out the doors of our buildings, the remains of their go… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I walked this path years ago: it is not an easy path. But there are a lot of us out here waiting for you. Can we ever really leave our mother church? Perhaps not. The complexity of tangled u… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I’m honoured to welcome my friend, Mihee Kim-Kort to this little corner of the Internet today. You’ll see why I love Mihee as you read her important essay below – she&rsquo&hell…Read More
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