April 2025 Reader. This is a rewrite from last year. As Sabbath happens every week. While working on the Hearing Their Stories: Reading Guide, (for the podcast series found on Spotify here), I was struck by a note in my Bible: Psalm 92 is a psalm for the Sabbath—meant to be read every Sabbath. Imagine that. For thousands of years, every single Saturday (remember, Sabbath in Jewish tradition begins Friday at sundown and ends Saturday at sundown), Jewish people all over the world read Psalm 92....
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February 2026 Reader. “Were you there when they crucified my Lord?” I’ve been listening to a version of that song from Tommee Profitt’s new album The Resurrection of the King. https://open.spotify.com/track/68SvQp1992P62AUdgOSqLm?si=6ce93d44e50643da (also available on YouTube and Apple Music) It’s an African American spiritual first printed in 1899, likely composed by enslaved African Americans in the 19th century. It later became the first spiritual included in a major American hymnal, and...
4 days ago • 1 min read
February 2026 Reader. Are you sitting down? You might want to be sitting down for this one… Last year, when launching the 2025 Women Around the Cross Reading Guide, I wrote about a woman I had not yet noticed in Mark 12:41–44. Jesus sits opposite the temple treasury, watches the crowd, and then points out to His disciples a widow putting in two small coins. What caught my attention was when this happened, within the final days leading up to His crucifixion. And so I included her in the...
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February 2026 Reader. Watching the final week of Jesus’ earthly ministry through the eyes of the women who stayed would have started yesterday, Friday, March 27. Why, yes. I am a bit late getting this to you. Does anyone else feel like Easter came too quickly this year? Why? Have you noticed the date of Easter changes every year… but Christmas doesn’t? That’s because Easter follows the Jewish lunar calendar—the same calendar Jesus followed. Which means the dates and events leading up to the...
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February 2026 Reader. In my opinion, there’s no better place for Women's History Month than with the most ancient stories of women, found in Scripture. Take Exodus, for example. Before Moses ever stands before Pharaoh, two women are given a terrible command. Pharaoh orders the Hebrew midwives to destroy the Hebrew baby boys. Instead, Shiphrah and Puah refuse—an act that becomes the first resistance in the Exodus story and the beginning of Israel’s deliverance. This month feels like the...
27 days ago • 1 min read
January 2026 Insights Insights from the work: what clients are navigating, what I’m learning, and ways to keep growing. Reader, What you will find in this email: A 9 Lumens Alumni free quarterly check-in (in the p.s.) A simple but honest question: How are you really? A framework to assess whether you’re flourishing, functional, or fractured It’s the last day of February. So let me ask you: How are you… really? January had its way with us. February flew by. And now we’re turning our face...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
January 2026 Insights Insights from the work: what clients are navigating, what I’m learning, and ways to keep growing. Reader, Got questions about the Enneagram? Good. So do I. Iit’s been eight years since I first read The Road Back to You. I remember being on a plane, nearly throwing the book across the aisle because it named things I’d been seeing in myself and my family but never had the language for. Back then, I was full of questions—especially about my type. I originally tested as a...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
February 2026 Reader. Here in Seattle Seahawks territory, it feels almost sacrilegious to send an email about a women’s study on Super Bowl Sunday. And for my Canadian friends and family, the start of the Winter Olympics is also a really big deal. So, between the two of these events, I’m honestly not sure how many of you will even open this email. Let me tell you about my first Super Bowl party… as a Canadian. We had only lived here three months, and I was nine months pregnant—on my due date,...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
February 2026 Reader. I am so excited to start Born for Deliverance: the Women of Exodus next week; hybrid via Zoom and in the Living Room. Just like with studies before, I feel like the image below. I'm in that little yellow boat on the surface, looking at the tip of the iceberg. I'm excited knowing there is so much to explore beneath the surface. And it’s going to be so beautiful! I do these studies in "real time," directed by what God leads me to and what I discover as I study. So as of...
2 months ago • 2 min read