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Articles by Andrea Lucado
Four Signs It’s Time to Move On from an Unhealthy Relationship
When you’re in a transitional phase in life, which may include the entire decade of your twenties and maybe your thirties too, you have to say goodbye to a lot of things: college, your first job, your apartment, your hometown, another town, another job—and before, after and in-between all of those, relationships. Maybe a lot of relationships. Maybe only one or two significant ones.
Abortion: I grew up a Texan evangelical Christian. I'm not a single-issue voter any more.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Texas’ law that bans abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy and deputizes citizens to sue anyone they know who has provided an abortion or assisted in one. In an extraordinary move last month, the court declined to grant a temporary stay of the law as requested by the Justice Department, but the justices took up the case on an expedited timeline. With hearings already scheduled for Dec.
When 'Doing Church' Becomes Too Much
Last week I was feeling irritable. I was busy. I had a lot of things to do and places to be and I didn’t like it. My soul wanted to rest. You know that feeling? When you realize you crammed a few too many things onto your calendar for the week and you feel the pull? The pull between being committed to things and not wanting to do them at all?
What to Do When You Start Doubting Your Faith
From age 22 to 23, I lived in England. I was there for graduate school, but really I was there for something else: to wrestle with that question all people of faith must wrestle with at some point, “Why do I believe what I believe?” I am a pastor’s daughter, raised in the Bible Belt of the U.S., a region that spans from Central and West Texas to the East Coast, as far north as West Virginia.
Five Lessons I Learned in Youth Group That Turned Out to be True, Actually
I think our generation likes to complain about the church we were raised in. It was backward, we say. It lacked grace or its theology was off. We have all sorts of reasons to be anti the establishment of church, but in doing this, we’re forgetting some of the invaluable lessons church taught us, especially as teens. Youth group was different for each of us, but there a few sermons we probably all heard growing up. At the time, they sounded monotonous or irrelevant to our lives.
Chrissy Teigen Leaving Twitter Is a Reminder That We All Need Social Media Breaks
On Thursday, social media superstar Chrissy Teigen announced that she’s leaving Twitter. “This no longer serves me as positively as it serves me negatively,” she tweeted before going dark. “And I think that’s the right time to call something.” She alluded to online bullying as being a significant reason for her departure, saying “I’ve always been portrayed as a strong clap back girl, but I’m just not.
Your Stress is Harming Your Spiritual Life
I’ve noticed a theme since entering adulthood: it’s stressful. Becoming a grown up means grown-up responsibilities. You go to work, where maybe you have a difficult boss, or strict deadlines, budgets to make and presentations to give. After work, you go home, where you’re trying to keep up with things like grocery shopping, bills and cleaning. And on top of keeping your work and home life in order, you are trying to maintain a decent social life, stay up-to-date on pop culture and follow the news.
Andrea Lucado: How the female body became the scapegoat for white evangelicals
Children have died at the border, the mass shooting count since Sandy Hook is up to 2,197, white nationalism is terrorizing the country, and crowds are breaking into disturbing chants at President Donald Trump's rallies. Still, one subset of Protestant, conservative Christianity is pleased with Trump's first term: white evangelicals. At the center of their support? A loud and persistent pro-life rally cry.
How the female body became the scapegoat for white evangelicals
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Perspective | How the female body became the scapegoat for white evangelicals
Children have died at the border, the mass shooting count since Sandy Hook is up to 2,197, white nationalism is terrorizing the country, and crowds are breaking into disturbing chants at Trump rallies. Still, one subset of Protestant, conservative Christianity is pleased with President Trump’s first term: white evangelicals. At the center of their support? A loud and persistent pro-life rally cry.
So, You're Starting to Doubt Your Faith
From age 22 to 23, I lived in England. I was there for graduate school, but really I was there for something else: to wrestle with that question all people of faith must wrestle with at some point, “Why do I believe what I believe?” I am a pastor’s daughter, raised in the Bible Belt of the U.S., a region that spans from Central and West Texas to the East Coast, as far north as West Virginia.
Here’s Why You Should Take a Break from Social Media This Weekend
Every Friday at 5 p.m. I get off social media. I delete the apps from my phone and try my hardest to resist logging in on my laptop for the rest of the night and all day Saturday and Sunday. Then on Monday morning, around 8, I get back on. I reload the apps on my phone and scroll and stalk at will.
The Turquoise Table Movement Wants You
Four years ago, Kristin Schell ordered two picnic tables for a party. She was a reliable hostess in her Austin community, a thrower of book clubs, barbecues, and neighborhood Bible studies. Schell had read Romans 12:13—“Take every opportunity to open your life and home to others” (The Voice)—and took Paul’s words seriously. But all the planning and prepping was driving the mother of four crazy, and entertaining never seemed to yield the depth of community she craved.
From Slaves of Sin to Slaves of God
When I was in elementary school, I decided I was going to grow an apple tree in our backyard. I didn’t tell my family about it. I wanted to do it secretly so that one day when there was a blossoming apple tree growing out of my mother’s flower bed, everyone would be amazed and I could reveal that I had grown it. I hoarded an apple seed from an apple I had eaten earlier in the day and smuggled it into the backyard when no one was looking.
Max Lucado’s daughter shares how expectations affected her walk with God
By Andrea Lucado May 4 blog post at MaxLucado.com My dad tells this story from when I was five years old. He was teaching me and my two sisters about the Garden of Eden. In the middle of the story, I interrupted, “Wait, if God didn’t want Adam and Eve to eat from the tree, why’d He put it in the garden?” And thus my impulsively inquisitive nature reared its head. Such questions and concerns have never quite left me. I’ve always felt the need to ask “why?” until I get a sufficient answer.
Relying on the Body
For those who walk the journey of faith, doubt is inevitable. It is not so much a question of if you will doubt, but when. It creeps in in various forms. You may doubt the basics, such as the existence of God. Or you may doubt an aspect of the faith, such as the validity of Scripture or God’s character. Whatever form doubt arrives in, shame is often its common companion. What would people think if they knew the questions you were secretly asking?
So, You’re Starting to Doubt Your Faith
From age 22 to 23, I lived in England. I was there for graduate school, but really I was there for something else: to wrestle with that question all people of faith must wrestle with at some point, “Why do I believe what I believe?” I am a pastor’s daughter, raised in the Bible Belt of the U.S., a region that spans from Central and West Texas to the East Coast, as far north as West Virginia.
The Surprising Thing That Really Makes A Person Likable
I knew this girl in college. She doesn’t know this, but when I think about the type of person I hope to be one day, I think about her. And I think it’s because of this: She liked herself. How could I tell? She was confident, fun, funny and totally weird in the best kind of way. She didn’t wear make-up often and she usually had on this old, bright blue Northface jacket. The zipper was broken, so the jacket always hung lopsided. She wore it anyways.
Six Tips for Navigating Your Twenties (+ a Giveaway!)
Winners of the All Groan Up giveaway are… Send me your address via my contact page or PM. CONGRATULATIONS! A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about an article I had read that inspired me to embrace this unknown season of life I’m in, rather than run from it. I tweeted about the article and because social media, I ended up virtually meeting the author, Paul Angone. Turns out, Paul has just written a book all about navigating the shaky, weird decade that is your twenties.
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