The Thursday Threads 2/14

Since fin­ish­ing The Twelve Tribes of Hat­tie I’ve had some more spare time to search through the blog world, and hon­estly, some of my favorite posts came to life this past week (or so). Lent is start­ing and I get that every­one is look­ing for some input on how to make this the most spir­i­tual and stress free sea­son (those two prob­a­bly won’t be com­pat­i­ble, but I made a spe­cial sec­tion for the ones I found helpful.

Any­how. Here. Are. The Threads!

I Love this kind of Bravery

My Con­fes­sion by H.B. Allaman

And this kind

Love and Inad­e­quacy: A Rant-​Turned-​Personal-​Essay
by Kevin Aimes

LGBT Must Read

When Ex Gays Aren’t Ex Gay: It’s not about hypocrisy. It’s about Lan­guage. by Justin Lee

A Won­der­ful Two-​Part Post on Iden­tity (with a bit of a response to Justin Lee’s post above)

What it REALLY means to be and other Iden­tity Labels

Part 1 and Part 2

Some­one every­one should be lis­ten­ing to. Right. Now:

Pro­gres­sive Chris­tian­ity is as Bro­ken As Evan­gel­i­cal­ism: Here’s How to Fix It, by Fran­cis Schaeffer

Long Over­due Blog Launch (glad you’re here!)

Scared by AJ

She Com­pletely Chal­lenged My Hatred for Win­ter… And I got some things to think about now.

The Sub­tle Whis­per of Win­ter by Stephanie Spencer

LENT

40 Ideas for Keep­ing a Holy Lent, by Nadia Bolz Weber

Why Evan­gel­i­cals Hate Lent by Bo Sanders

A Joy­ful Lent by Mag­gie Dawn

I Remem­ber the Ashes by Ben Howard

The Only Way Out is Through (A Lenten Reflec­tion) by Chris­t­ian Piatt

Pray Request

Lenten Mir­a­cles

RR