Tiya Thomas-Alexander | February 20, 2024
It’s become a bad habit that I’m struggling to kill. Discontentment, that is. Always chasing a life that was or that could be, I do not fully take ownership of...
Continue ReadingTiya Thomas-Alexander | July 31, 2023
Recently I panicked that I had become a cultural Christian. The transformative work of the gospel seemed detached from my everyday life. I didn’t feel a part of a bigger...
Continue ReadingTiya Thomas-Alexander | August 26, 2022
We almost always have a full home and people around the table. It fills my heart to the brim. But it also exposes me for who I am: a grumbly...
Continue ReadingTiya Thomas-Alexander | September 22, 2021
It’s hard to admit how awful the throes of mental illness are. It’s easier when recalled; when rationale has been restored. It makes little sense now, but I remember rushing...
Continue ReadingTiya Thomas-Alexander | February 24, 2021
It is the beginning of 2021 and I am writing this during the third national lockdown in England. Writing narratives from the middle of things can be risky because there...
Continue ReadingTiya Thomas-Alexander | June 3, 2020
A Liturgy for those Grappling with Injustice Lord, in the middle of the pandemic, injustices are coming to light with force. Lord, are You watching over it all? It feels...
Continue ReadingTiya Thomas-Alexander | February 16, 2018
When Naomi left her hometown for a foreign country, Moab, the Bible doesn’t tell us how she felt. All we know is that she went along with her husband...
Continue ReadingTiya Thomas-Alexander | May 2, 2017
Recently, or rather over the past year, I’ve been pushed to a particular place. I am generally a very dramatic, emotional girl, but in this place suddenly I find more...
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