Extra: My Latest Podcast Interview and RNS Column

Warning: both go to deep, dark places

[For Our Daughters is a powerful new documentary that addresses the urgent issues facing women of faith in America. Directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Carl Byker and presented by Kristin Kobes Du Mez, the New York Times bestselling author of Jesus and John Wayne, the film is a timely exploration of the intersection of faith, politics, and women's rights in America.]

Dear Readers,

I don’t know how to express just how hard and painful it is to watch these things, let alone write about them. So many I love and care about are caught up in this situation, as I once was. But I have to speak what seems to me to be plainer and plainer truth.

Here’s my column today at RNS. This is not what repentance, forgiveness, and restoration look like.

Coincidentally, I did a podcast interview yesterday with Scott Lencke that talks more in depth about these things (in the second half). Again, it’s painful and hard.

But God is good.

Give this conversation a listen here if you wish.

And indulge me, if you will, with a bit of vulnerability and honesty:

My mother’s health is failing as she battles cancer treatments at age 88. I returned home from a wonderful conference last week with some kind of cold that has been brutal (negative for Covid!). And I have so much work to do in coming weeks. I give myself grace (I can’t function without it). But my weary brain and heart need supernatural strength to get it all done. I would love any and all of the thoughts and prayers you can offer.

Much love,

Karen