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Articles by Deidra Riggs
Jesus and John Wayne and Mel Gibson’s William Wallace from the Movie Braveheart
This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. This tailgate decal can be yours for $49.95. There are books out there that are so in your wheelhouse that you resist them.
Musings From The Sandwich Generation
Sometimes the only sliver of peace in the midst of a busy life is right smack dab in the middle of the shower. Many a great revelation has come to me as I stood under the flow of hot, running water with the steam rising up to meet me.
It Was Always Burning
“If you’re not working for justice, stop calling for peace.” – Bernice King, daughter of MLK Last weekend the kids and I drove down to Ohio to visit my family for the first time in months. I stayed up late that first night, in my childhood bedroom, reading a spiral bound school newspaper from my tiny public school. I was in 5th grade the year it was published. The point of the publication was to honor our community by showcasing our pride in it.
When Buying “All The Things” Is a Matter of the Heart and Soul
I was at Michaels, standing in the middle of the aisle with seasonal home goods that were marked with red tags, when a holy voice from heaven sounded, booming loud into my chest, saying, “Get the thing, you need the thing. It’s everything you ever wanted, and it’s on sale. Get the thing.” I thought, God knows me so well — so well He’s starting to sound like me. I pulled my hand away from the shelf and stopped caressing every wooden sign and flower wreath. I stood there for a moment and thought.
When You've Been Wronged
In John 17, Jesus expressed this desire for his followers: “I pray ... that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. … I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity” (vv. 20–23). But as we consider unity and oneness, we cannot avoid the reality of evil and injustice in our world.
Why a pool party fight in Texas can help us all consider who we call ‘my people’
This opinion piece is by Deidra Riggs, a writer, speaker and a pastor’s wife, living in Lincoln, Neb. Her book, “Every Little Thing,” will be released this fall. The video of a pool party gone wrong in McKinney, Tex., has much of America talking. Picking a side seems of utmost importance, even — and perhaps especially — among people of faith. But how does our perspective change when we consider that we belong to one another.
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