TOPIC INDEXGod (6)

  1. What Diet Coke Taught Me About Pentecost

    book
    05/29/20
    15 mins
    By Valerie Thur
    Our use–or disuse–of language reveals a deeper need than a bubbly carbonated soda. It highlights a gift given and a gift fallen, and it leaves us thirsting for a gift restored.

  2. The End is in Sight

    book
    12/26/19
    15 mins
    By Valerie Thur
    We think that if we are good enough, brave enough, or at least if we try hard enough, we will be someone who can be both fully known and fully loved.

  3. Killed the Word

    book
    08/12/19
    13 mins
    By Valerie Thur
    Mere confrontation in the form of, “What you’re doing is wrong—you need to change yourself,” can never solve the root of our problem.

  4. Three Words and the Truth

    book
    07/08/19
    14 mins
    By Valerie Thur
    “I love you” is great, as long as whatever commitment I may or may not be intimating is mutually beneficial and causes the least amount of emotional strain to me.

  5. How Dreams Die

    book
    11/12/18
    13 mins
    By Valerie Thur
    The more I seek God on my own terms, the deeper I am gazing at my own navel.

  6. What Writer’s Block Tells us About the Kingdom of God

    book
    07/30/18
    12 mins
    By Valerie Thur
    Writer’s Block, however, entertains no such fantasies. It goes straight for my ego’s jugular and pounds home the fact that I’m not good enough.