When people ask me to tell them something they don’t already know about me, I often say this, “I’m an Australian citizen.” Strange to say when all I’ve ever known of Australia were the yearly trips we would make to visit my Grandma during the […]

This post has been a long time coming – a result of thoughts that have been mulling around in my brain for a while now. I wrote it in fits and starts, still struggling to squeeze time in to write in the crevasses of the […]

The topic of a woman’s place in marriage and church is one that is of both intellectual and personal interest to me. I wrote the first portion of this after reading the Counterpoints book, “Two views on women in ministry“, which included both complementarian and […]

Earth in its elemental form is smooth, shiny wet and a motley of muted colors. The Tawas lake bed I spent the morning picking up rocks from the sandbed, turning them over in my hand as I waded ankle-deep in the cool lake water. It’s […]

Marriage is on the decline, they say. According to Pew Research Center, 39% of respondents believe marriage is obselete and 1 in 4 of today’s young adults may never marry based on current trends. “Getting married huh,” was the response of my senior PhD student […]

Hello world! It feels like I’m somewhat emerging from a period of non-writing hibernation. There’s too much to say about what’s been going on in my world the past few months – my existential crisis about being in year 4 of my PhD and wishing […]

This week has been an exciting one indeed, with the first shipments of the vaccine arriving in Canada and the unprecedented in the history of science and medicine materializing before our eyes: a vaccine developed in just 18 months. But with all the hubbub and […]

This is the 6th installation of the micah 6.8 series, in which I explore how faith influences our everyday life. If you haven’t read the other installations, you can start here: Part 1: never productive enough, Part 2: the food we eat, Part 3: the beauty we create, […]

This piece is more a light-hearted reflection on the four months I recently spent in Strasbourg, France. I was there for a research collaboration, but received a cross-cultural education at the same time. Here is a collection of vignettes (including funny and embarrassing things that […]

Read the preceding posts in the Micah6.8 series here: Part 1: never productive enough, Part 2: the food we eat. It was hard for me to write this post. Ironically, it had to do with wanting to make it beautiful, perfect, have things fit together […]