This is The Ailene.

Day 1: Redeeming the Sabbath.

It was Rory’s fiance that taught me how to dig deep into Elevation Church’s sermon podcasts when I am at work. And now that I’ve deactivated my Facebook and changed my Twitter password into an insanely long one that I need to check-triple-check with my files just to get back into my Twitter account, I [...]

ZION

In one word, Hillsong United’s Zion is: beautiful. Now let me break it down for you. Musicality There are no complaints. I appreciated all the musical details about Zion, even the cheesiness of A Million Suns. It’s about time that the worship music scene got the memo on how the rest of the world has [...]

Where feet does fail: on faith and surfing.

I’ve always seen surfing as one of the most literal ways to express my faith. There I go, not the world’s best athlete or the world’s most enthusiastic swimmer, also with not that great a sense of balance, on a flimsy fiberglass board double my size, in the middle of a somewhat deadly ocean,* facing [...]

A woman’s worth.

This one is for all the ladies I know whose hearts are not okay. It may be because they’re going through break-ups (God knows January is the ultimate break-up month), and/or they went through that break-up  a while back and it still stings. These are for all the ladies whose hearts are not all right. [...]

On silence and praise.

I wanted to be silent on the last day of 2012. I thought it was fitting. Because you see, I talk too much. I remember when I first started blogging, I confessed to having an over-abundance of words. It’s been a decade of blogging and writing articles for magazines, and there are still too many [...]