This article (compiled by Allison Joiner, Hannah Davis, and Amanda Brown) is a sneak peek at the May/June issue of Oh Beloved One. Stay tuned! Preorders begin April 8, and magazines begin shipping in a couple weeks! Make sure you’re on our mailing list to get notified when the issue releases. FIRST OFF 1. Worship …
Guest post by Eliana Duran When you look in the mirror, do you find yourself applying mental labels? Have you ever fallen into thinking about it again and again, in an endless loop? I have. Some days I’ve been prideful. “I’m beautiful,” I’d tell myself. “Wow, I am smart.” Other days, I’ve drowned in self-pity. …
I’m the type of person who does what they’re supposed to do like a goody two-shoes . . . until I realize everyone else is slacking off. In design classes, I usually do my reading religiously until halfway through the semester, when everyone is chuckling about being weeks and weeks behind. It’s even like this …
Why can nothing truly satisfy us? School started a couple weeks ago, and I’m in a biblical counseling class. My teacher said something that really got me started thinking: “There’s no one way of conducting psychotherapy that works for everyone, everywhere. If there were, all the psychologists would be using it and no one would …
A couple weeks ago, I posted about my word for the year: still. I didn’t want to just choose a word for the year because, A.) I’m tired of making New Years Resolutions just because everyone else does and B.) I’m tired of feeling like I need to choose a word of the year because …
This is a part of the Command blog series where we’re talking about how the Ten Commandments aren’t just a dusty set of tablets with dumb rules . . . by a long shot! There is a movement in our generation. A movement that takes the holy out of the Sabbath. I’ve been reading through Exodus, …
The first time I heard about a “word of the year” was reading Robin Jones Gunn’s blog (a Christian fiction writer whose novels really helped mold my teenage years). At first, I couldn’t imagine narrowing down a whole year to one word, especially since the year hadn’t even begun yet. Who knew what word I …
This is a part of the Command blog series where we’re talking about how the Ten Commandments aren’t just a dusty set of tablets with dumb rules . . . by a long shot! You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is …
When I was little, I didn’t understand why tithing was such a big deal. In my 6-year-old world where my budget involved saving up for plastic fairy wands at Ingles, I had plenty of money left over to put in the shiny metal offering plate. In fact, I didn’t exactly understand. If I had a …
Written by Jo Ruth, a Beloved writer. I grew up as a preacher’s kid. Missions and ministry and serving were always prominent features in my life, and there wasn’t a mealtime that went by where we didn’t pray for so-and-so here and there around the world. And if I’m honest, I was a little daunted …
