Kathleen S Evenhouse
Writing With Vision
Today, a friend’s Facebook post prompted me to take some time to review my summer before entering gungho into fall. I had spent yesterday doing just that, enjoying a day of limited activity and lots of alone leisure time. Today, my response to a class writing prompt from 2023 caught my eye. It coincided with… Read More
We want the Bible to say that slavery is immoral, but it doesn’t come right out condemn it. It does speak of freedom (1 Corinthians 7:21), but God’s word is more about spiritual freedom than physical emancipation. However, Paul’s teaching did subvert the concept of slavery, as slaves now had a greater loyalty to God… Read More
I wrote this poem in 1973. My father had a brain tumor of the most aggressive kind, and he hung on to life for nine months, at least his body did. As time progressed, the tumor and corresponding treatment blocked the essence of my father from making it out of the barriers that jailed him… Read More
Conversation does not seem to be a valued skill in America today. We are good at pointing fingers, making judgments, taking sides, insisting we are right and that we we have rights, and looking out for #1. After all, “we’re worth it.” Conversation happens in that middle space between two opposing viewpoints, between authority and… Read More
“Food and love are so bound up, it’s sometimes hard to see where the sugar ends and the love begins.” Bee Wilson, author The First Bite: How We Learn to Eat Mothers, did you know that what you eat while you are pregnant affects your babies likes and dislikes for food? Yes, if you love… Read More
You parents—if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead? Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? Of course not! So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts… Read More
We receive love in childhood through affection, wise discipline, affirmation, laughter, play, prayer . . . in lots of ways both large and small. We start to make our own lists of what love is while we are still in the womb, and we add to it throughout our childhood. Then we put it in… Read More
Kathleen S Evenhouse 