An Untidy Faith

 ABOUT me

faith AFTER EVANGELICAL fundamentalism

I’m a writer, speaker, and Bible teacher who believes discipleship isn’t a bucket to fill or a box to check off but something that should permeate our entire lives and bring together all of us and our gifts and experiences.

I spent most of my life in a Bible Belt bubble, and it wasn’t until I got a job at a missions agency and got to travel the globe to witness what God was doing that my faith changed forever.

Since then, I’ve been on a journey to disentangle my faith from my culture and to create space for finding what to hold firm and what to hold loose. Today, I stand in the “messy middle,” a place with firm roots in Nicene orthodoxy and lots of elbow room for most other things.

My passion is drawing together the strands of theology, history, and culture to make disciples that believe, act, and become according to the Way of Jesus.

 
 
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Personality: ISTJ, Enneagram 5, Ravenclaw

Home: I live in Dallas with my husband Daniel and our furbaby (dog) Sergeant Doom.

Day Job: Communications Director at a university and seminary student at SMU Perkins School of Theology

Obsessions: Everything British, Harry Potter, creative competition shows, trivia, and long talks about deep things

 
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 My goals for you

happy & holy

pursuing holiness through wholeness

Spiritually Confident

Assured that the Holy Spirit can and will work through you and is already working in you to become more like Christ

Biblically Conversant

Able to engage the Bible through the big story of God and the context of its time so you can apply it to your life today personally and corporately as part of God’s people

Relationally Conscious

Aware of your own emotional health and able to connect deeply in community to be shaped and to shape others in healthy, God glorifying ways

Ethically Congruent

Aligned internally with your boundaries and beliefs as well as externally through your actions and attitudes with the world around you

 What We Believe

nicene-constantinople creed

I believe in One God,
the Father Almighty,
Maker of Heaven and Earth,
and of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the Son of God,
the Only-Begotten, begotten of the Father before all ages;
Light of Light;
True God of True God;
begotten, not made;
of one essence with the Father,
by Whom all things were made;
Who for us men and for our salvation
came down from Heaven,
and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary,
and became man.
And He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate,
and suffered, and was buried.
And the third day He arose again,
according to the Scriptures,
and ascended into Heaven,
and sits at the right hand of the Father;
and He shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead;
Whose Kingdom shall have no end.

And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life,
Who proceeds from the Father;
Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified;
Who spoke by the prophets.

And in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.

I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins.
I look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come.

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