Saint Hewett

Julia once told me that the summer before she came to BFA, she was talking to one of my former students who heard she would be in Bible 1...

There's an email in my BFA inbox dated September 2, 2013 from Clint and Helen Taylor that has a subject line, "Welcome to BFA!" This wond...

I was chatting with one of my first students from BFA and her fiancé, and Alyssa reminisced about the first week of class with me as her ...

I was used to being underestimated before my accident, but ever since, I constantly have the joy of amazing people with my ability to tie...

I pondered a lot about what to post this week because there's a lot of unresolved hurt in my life that I'm working to grow from but I don...

I wrote a couple of weeks ago about how during his visit in July Seth and I decided to get matching shield tattoos and how I'd also read ...

This week at our all staff conference, Michele Phoenix (yes, the Michele Phoenix) shared an encouraging video about serving young people ...

I've had so many thoughts running through my head after wild weeks and a wild summer, and I can't relay all of it, but the conversations ...

I’ve got my next few tattoos lined up as of today. I’ve known for ages I want to get a bridge tattoo. I grew up in a city nicknamed (amon...

I love the movie Meet the Robinsons for a lot of reasons, but this scene where Lewis fails and the whole family is cheering for him is su...

One of my former students is here for the summer and working as my personal assistant - for those of you who laughed, jokes on you when s...

I spent a lot of time staring at the stars in the night sky several nights this week, and I felt a lot of feelings - which most people kn...

Graduation was last week, and Wednesday was the teacher wrap up day for the 2019-2020 school year. Wednesday was also a meeting and plann...

"Ms. Hewett, I think of you as a bad Christian." "Go on, why is that?" "Because you're a good person. And you don't do what the Bible say...

I had a whole different post in mind yesterday after some really good conversations with students this week, but then this morning I had ...

Today's post comes to you in disjointed stories as I stitch together the lessons I'm learning and the lies I'm rooting out of my life. Pl...

Last night as I was trying to fall asleep, I had a great idea for a blog post. Then I, by the grace of God, managed to fall asleep and st...

I cut my hair off on Monday. Like, a lot of it. I chopped nearly a foot off in a braid, and my housemate took clippers to the rest. After...

If you go through my archive, you'll find more than one reference to the Superchic[k] song "Alright." It showed up in one of my annual pl...

Years ago several of my students were struggling with feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. They found solace making a joke about su...