I’ve spent more than 10 years telling powerful stories, with a special interest in the arenas of faith and family life. My features and essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Fast Company, The Everymom, Coffee + Crumbs, Living Lutheran and more. Of the writing life, I agree with Ann Patchett, who says, “Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.”
Features
- 15 Essentials for Baby’s First Year
- LIRS, partners welcome Afghan allies
- The spiritual discipline of rest
- Where all may dwell
- A song in the midst of suffering
- Attuned to God’s call
- Leadership lessons from Kamala Harris
- Hard conversations: How to talk to kids about white privilege
- A source of light
- The spirituality of natural burials
- Tap into your vocation
- How to have your best year yet — without resolutions
- What moms need to know about workplace discrimination
- How to teach kids to have healthy body image
- Stories of hope and resilience
- Drowning happens so easily. Here’s what parents get wrong about water safety.*
- Young adults claim camp as church home
- Three truths and two lies from Girl, Stop Apologizing
- Ten things all women need to know about IVF
- How to teach values to babies and toddlers
- These are the biggest postpartum issues for moms
- Six stress-free ways to get your kids involved with tidying up
- Is it a marriage deal breaker if your partner doesn’t want more kids?
- What Tidying Up can teach us about grace
- This is exactly how new moms feel — so why isn’t anyone talking about it?
- Fit & faithful
- Eight doable New Year’s resolutions for moms
- What science tells us about raising faithful children
- Gathered together, changed forever
- How to write a great email
- A chain of support
- Why millennials aren’t at church
- On clergy juggling two jobs**
- Refugees grow food and community
- How pets influence our faith
- Church for children with special needs
- On sexism in the church
- Lutheran response to Gulf Coast flooding
- Refugees start over in Michigan
- Proclaiming God’s love: From Cambodia to Costa Rica
- The invitation
*One of The Washington Post’s top On Parenting articles in 2019.
**Winner of an Associated Church Press Award of Merit in 2017.
Essays
- Some Fly Miles for Sweetness
- Dinnertime dilemma
- Erős vár a mi Istenünk
- Colors of Grief
- Searching for the Spirit
- Abundant Love, an eight day email devotional with Kimberly Knowle-Zeller
- What nourishes us
- Empty shelves and questions
- Who is God?
- Hunger
- I’m not a perfect mom — these are my confessions
- Illumination
- Four ways having a baby changed our marriage
- Five ways to free yourself from perfectionistic parenting
- How motherhood inspires lifelong learning
- The Enneagram and God’s grace
- What Scripture says about God’s love
- Raising a cheerful giver
- Four important steps to take when you’re feeling burned out
- Hover mom
- Embracing imperfection makes me a better mom
- How motherhood helps me overcome people-pleasing
- When I screamed at my son, it felt unforgiveable
- How I finally overcame working mom guilt
- Sin and forgiveness
- Ten things I would tell my pre-mom self
- Birth story: Moments after, I heard ‘he’s not breathing’
- How I’m teaching my son about Christmas
- Why and how I prioritize self-care as a mom
- It’s going to be alright: Wrestling with working motherhood
- The faith of my grandfathers
- Why becoming a mother actually boosted my career
- This is how I finally confronted my office bully
- What helped end my #fitspo obsession–for good*
- To my mom, with love
- Back on my mat
- On expecting a baby during Advent
*Listen to an interview I did about this story here.
Erin Strybis 