Dr. Carmen Joy Imes

I've been blogging here since 2009. That makes this year 17! For the past five years, my posts have tapered off, largely because I'v...

I was in the first class Dr. Karl Kutz taught at Multnomah University in the fall of 1996. My best friend, Jill, and I sat near the front in...

  I've been keeping a fun secret for several months, and I finally get to tell you! My good friend Esau McCaulley agreed to write the f...

I'm thrilled to share the cover of my forthcoming book! Becoming God's Family: Why the Church Still Matters releases October 28, 202...

I can't imagine a world without books, a year without books, a week without books. Books add light and color and sound to a black and wh...

I set a goal to read 40 books in 2023. I only completed 37 (though I started a dozen more . . . some of them abandoned, some still in progre...

I can't shake the melancholy this December. Life has cast its shadow over all the parties. It's not all somber, of course, but the m...