Katie Schuermann is a lovely woman, a pious Lutheran, a faithful wife. She’s funny. She’s smart. She’s talented. She’s a daughter, a sister, a godmother, a friend. She also happens to bear a particularly difficult cross, a cross that she’s written about in her newly-released book He Remembers the Barren, a book that tackles how Lutherans understand barrenness, marriage, children, and families in a world … Continue reading He Remembers the Barren
If there was a parental version of a war crimes trial, keeping copies of things your children wrote when they were young should number among the worst offenses. For the papers my mom has kept, she should be locked up for at least eleventy million years. Please consider the following example, and then tell me I’m wrong. Just tell me. I dare you. “I wouldn’t … Continue reading oh, the shame
Most of my public school education I can’t recall. It’s really better that way. I kind of hated public school. So, as a frizzy-haired homeschooler, I trundled off to ninth grade at a private Christian high school. I had cheated my way through math, hated science, and was a rather lackluster quiz bowler. But history, political science, theology, and English . . . .well, I … Continue reading I’d sing “Unforgettable” . . . but that would just be creepy.
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