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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
For those of you who are writers, or for those of you who are interested in how and why I write about the things I write about, I would love…
When I receive responses like this, I can only feel grateful that I get to do this work: “My daughter and I thoroughly enjoyed your weekend discussion. I left with…
Slow, local, messy. Small, hidden, unnoticed. Patient, gentle, kind. These are the words I tend to use to describe the work of God’s Spirit in our lives and in the…