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Podcast — Can I Say This at Church? with Seth Price

I was a guest on this podcast episode which aired July 27, 2020.

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Reviews of RUINED

#2. Review by C. Christopher Smith at Englewood Review of Books on 5/17/17. from the review: What I love most about this memoir is that it is a gift, primarily for her daughters, but by extension to other young women and ultimately Christian culture in general.  Purity-culture theology has real-world, damaging  consequences, and Ruth Everhart […]

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Reviews of CHASING THE DIVINE IN THE HOLY LAND

#4. Review by Lois Sibley at Reviewing Religious Books (her blog) on 5/24/13. from the review: When Ruth Everhart was invited to participate in a ten-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land, she thought about it for awhile. As Presbyterian minister of a church in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, busy with both family and church, she […]

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What Language Can I Borrow?

A very personal essay about mothers and mortality. How can we celebrate Eastertide during a time of COVID-19? In the May 5, 2020 print edition of Christian Century, online here.

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THE #METOO RECKONING ON SALE NOW!

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Like the First Easter

Yesterday was Good Friday. Instead of working on a sermon or reading scripture to follow Jesus along the Via Dolorosa, I spent hours on the phone with my elderly mother, trying to help her master Zoom technology. The hours felt as sacred as any Good Friday observance. I want my mother to be able to […]

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Podcast — Faith Conversations with Anita Lustrea

Be part of the conversation as Anita Lustrea and I discuss justice, feminism and faith, including: why I wrote about the #MeToo movement, why we all have resistance to the subject why the equality of women matters what anger is good for how Jesus sees women how purity culture affects all of us, and why […]

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UNBOUND, a sermon on the raising of Lazarus, John 11:1-45

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UNBOUND, a sermon preached during the pandemic, on the raising of Lazarus, John 11:1-45

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A Life Cut Short by the Flu of 1918

This story was written by my late father, Nicholas Huizenga, about his uncle, Nicholas Zandstra, who died in the 1918 flu, and whom he was named after. My father’s title was “Breadbasket of the World.” Nicholas Zandstra left the rented family farm in Highland, Indiana on his horse on Sunday evening to attend the Young […]

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