Author: Kristen Hanna

I love Christmas. It truly is my favorite time of the year. I savor it all- the lights, the music, the candles, the smells, the cheer- it is

During one very hot Texas summer many years ago, I went with a group of high school students to Harlingen, Texas for a mission trip. Every day, we

I recently took a job and moved back to Dallas from Raleigh, North Carolina and an old friend showed up to help. She is relentlessly frantic and basically

The backside of the Confederate monument at the North Carolina capital building in Raleigh, NC. I have spent much of the past month preparing to move from Raleigh,

Les Miserables is one of those “love it” or “hate it” musicals. People have very strong opinions about it either way. On one hand, it is glorious storytelling

A few days ago, I was cleaning my bookshelves and a piece of paper with the following poem scribbled fell out of a book: Above all, trust in

I had many good intentions beginning this post. I had hoped to give a brief reflection on a trip I took this past week, a trip that involved

I am a self-professed lover of words. People who can turn a loose collection of adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs, and some well-placed punctuation into lusciously stunning poetry and

I confess that most of my religious-political life has been an entangled hot mess. Growing up in a conservative, Christian, affluent, middle-class family, allegiance to the Republican party

My previous post was intended to be the final installment of this series on the “Christian Purity Movement.” While it addressed some current, interesting interpretations of this ideology