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Chiquitita, you and I knowHow the heartaches come and they go and the scars they’re leavin’You’ll be dancing once again and the pain will endYou would have no time for grievin’ Hesed is Hebrew for grace, and one of the few words in my Hebrew vocabulary that I can actually remember. (It’s a pretty goodContinue reading “Hesed”

Given at Bonnie’s Celebration of Life, September 28th, 2025 My name is Mollie Mae, and I am Bonnie’s niece. I am a reverend (anirreverent one!), a chaplain, and a clinical crisis counselor on our suicidecrisis lines. Five years ago when I left the home of my abusive parents withmy car packed with books, my dog,Continue reading “A Blessing for Bonnie”

The story of the “bleeding woman” is found in more than one gospel and is a familiar narrative to many of us that grew up “well churched”. Feel free to read this retelling in NIV below to refresh yourself. 25 a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered aContinue reading “The “Bleeding Woman”, Restoration, and Audacity”

Orginally Submitted to HerPress “Dog Years”. Well I no longer hear the music when the lights go out, Love goes cold in the shades of doubt. The strange fate in my mind is all too clear. Music when the lights come on, The girl I thought I knew has gone And with her my heartContinue reading “Soulmate With a Snaggletooth”

“I choked/ on such longing I couldn’t spit out. Yes, desire is so different/ when God bore you hungry.” –anonymous My skeleton lights up like a Lite-Brite at night when I’m trying my hardest to sleep. There are over 400 bones in the human body and I can feel every one of mine. Pain alwaysContinue reading “Nick at Night”

“I’m sorry,” I apologized to Bethany my infusion nurse as I explained how the ER blew four of my veins on both arms ruining our favorite infusion vein. “That’s alright. We’ll just pop in right here,” she said, sticking the vein the first time. She put my infusion chair right in the sunbeam, making meContinue reading “Crip the Crucifixion”

A sermon on Esther and risk-taking hearts in a pandemic age, preached on July 9, 2020. Transcript available below.

And What I Taught Myself Instead “At this point I cannot give you a passing grade for the work you submitted…If you get another extension you can go back and actually do the work [emphasis added]. You will need to do this today so that your [grade] does not turn into an F.” “Yes IContinue reading “My Most Ableist Professor:”

I got out of the hospital 3 years ago today. In the hospital and then the acute rehab unit, I had been surrounded by helpers and support people. Here in person, on the phone, and in messages sent. The day I was brought home, I couldn’t feed myself, couldn’t walk through doorways on my own,Continue reading “A Moxie Guest Blogger: BilliJoy Carson”