Selected Books
Follow Your Bliss and Other Lies about Calling
This book uncovers challenges people don't usually talk about when they throw around the term calling, from missed and blocked callings to conflicted and fractured callings to unexpected and relinquished callings. Each chapter explores the hardships AND the ways people have reclaimed meaning and purpose in their lives.
In the Midst of Chaos: Caring for Children as Spiritual Practice
This book questions conventional perceptions that genuine spirituality requires silence and solitude, leaving parents afraid they are failing. Rather, spirituality can emerge through mundane daily practices, such as play, reading, chores, and saying goodbye or goodnight, suggesting parents don’t have to head to the mountaintop or desert to find God!
Let the Children Come: Reimaging Childhood from a Christian Perspective
What are the dominant cultural perceptions of children? How have Christians defined children and how should they? This book tackles cultural constructions of childhood that distort realities of being a child and suggests fresh ways to approach children in today's world--children as gifts, agents, and a labor of love.
Also a Mother: Work and Family as Theological Dilemma
How does motherhood change how one thinks about God and theology? As important, how does the demanding experience of mothering challenge how people divide household labor not only within families but within the broader society? This book suggests that mothers know something distinct from the bodily demands of mothering. It also argues that the labor of mothering should be shared not only by partners and children but society as a whole.