Family Formation: What is “the good life” for our children?
I loved getting to speak yesterday at Church of the Incarnation in Dallas about Reimagining Family Life. Our topic for their Family Formation evening was: What is “the good life”…
Connecting With People in Real Life | Festival of Faith & Writing
I don’t know how to capture the experience of the Festival of Faith and Writing last week. Of course, I listened to compelling speakers. And I loved preparing and offering…
How Jesus Changes the Story of Disability
Go where Jesus goes. See who Jesus sees. Tell the story that Jesus tells. I had a chance to preach at Matthews United Methodist Church last week, and together we…
Festival of Faith and Writing April 2024
I can more or less measure the timeline of my writing career through the Festival of Faith and Writing. In 2008 I saw an ad for the festival in a…
July Introductions
Hi! For those of you who are new around here, I’m Amy Julia. This community grows almost daily, so here’s a short introduction. My husband, Peter, and I met in…
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We All Need to Know We Are Beloved
Healing is so tender and scary and so very beautiful. Over the past two weeks, I have been reminded of these truths through a flurry of speaking engagements. From the…
Upcoming Events
Belovedness and belonging. Honesty, humility, and hope as movements towards healing. Bringing our brokenness under God’s blessing. In the next two weeks, I have four different speaking opportunities where I…
Honesty. Humility. Healing.
Be honest. Be humble. Begin healing. Bring healing. I had a chance to preach the final sermon in a series on healing at our church this past week. I talked…
Upcoming Speaking Opportunities
I used to say that I’m a writer who sometimes speaks. What I meant by that was that I didn’t feel super confident while speaking. I used very detailed notes…
Book Launch Party
It’s so much better in person. I forgot. I forgot that Zoom and Instagram and Marco Polo and all the other ways I can (thankfully!) connect with people through screens…
