"Rooted and shaken ..." This Advent Season, I invite you to reflect with me. In Advent, we wait, but we wait together. We wait with those who just as broken and beautiful as we are, knowing "only love can quiet the fear of love."

“It has been a hard year for a lot of people I know. … It makes sense why Christmas lights and holiday tunes would lift the spirits. And if this is you, I would like to offer the possibility that what your mental and emotional health might really need is Advent.” www.erinfmoniz.com/post/rejoici...

#knowingandbeingknown has been out in the world for 6 months! 🎉🎂 Help us celebrate by recommending it to a friend who needs hope for all their intimate relationships.

This #offtheshelf #minireview is a long time coming. I learned about this book while finishing my manuscript. Though I wish I had read it soon enough to include in my own book, honestly, it’s a blessing b/c I might have had to add new chapters to cover the overlap of material.

Want to join a #bookclub with others creating safe & healing space for those with #churchhurt or trauma? (And I hear the author is making a guest appearance! 😱) www.brokentobeloved.org/bookclub

We had a #knowingandbeingknown writing contest: and we have crowned a WINNER! www.erinfmoniz.com/post/birthda...

“Just get married! Just have kids!” Why do we perpetuate these narratives with a promise that this is all you need? #knowingandbeingknown www.erinfmoniz.com

What if our #intimaterelationships mattered more to our knowing God and the Gospel than we were taught in church? #faithroundtable #knowingandbeingknown youtu.be/p4P-URRF-3A?...

For anyone suffering from #church trauma or spiritual abuse, Brian’s work & organization is making a difference. I’m honored to have this important conversation in an era where we wonder if it is safe to get close to others. #brokentobeloved open.spotify.com/episode/3a8g...

Super grateful to those reading the book & writing reviews! Have you left your review of #knowingandbeingknown? 🤓 a.co/d/0DgXU7E

Remember friends, There is little you are going through that cannot be helped with a healthy dose of more poetry. Thus endeth the lesson.

Learning how to drive a Hybrid Jeep Wrangler around the streets of Seattle was not exactly on my “We Can do Hard Things” bingo card, but I’m feeling pretty accomplished. #wherearethewindowbuttons #amibackinhighschool #whomadetheseroads🛣️

Today I remembered that Amazon lets me see a running tally of sales for my book. Cool. A new number to compulsively check that will tell me my worth & value as a human being.

I’ve come to appreciate how writing a book pushes me to read important books. This one was brought to my attention by Zachary Wagner and is mentioned in my book #knowingandbeingknown. But you don’t have to be a feminist or researcher to appreciate this #offtheshelf #minireview. 🧵

WE DID IT! Final day on #elcamino! We arrived at the #Compostala after a long, hot, trail. So happy to have accomplished this with our team and @bayloruniversity students! @buspirituallife #baylorchapel #spiritualpilgrimage

Day 4: After a much needed recovery day yesterday, we were all back on the trail today from Azura to O Pedrouzo. We are holding up and staying optimistic for one final push tomorrow. #ElCamino #BuenCamino @buspirituallife #BaylorChapel

Day 2 on #elcamino! Portomarin to Palas de Rei. Beautiful scenery and 14.9 miles. We needed ice cream to complete the last 3 miles, but that’s pretty standard. The Baylor students are waaaay better at this than us. @buspirituallife #spiritualpilgrimage #baylorchapel #chaplaincylife

Shame holds us back from intimacy. How do we build intimacy with each other? Listen to my conversation with @erinfmoniz.bsky.social on @shiftingculture.bsky.social to find out. Listen to Shifting Culture anywhere you get podcasts.

First Day on #ElCamino! Sarria to Portomarín. 14 miles. Beautiful scenery. Rolling hills. Pass the ibuprofen. #BUspirituallife #baylorchapel #chaplaincylife

What does it truly mean to experience intimacy—with God, with others, and with ourselves? @erinfmoniz.bsky.social joins Dr. Carol Ministries podcast to explore how sex and intimacy may be related but are not the same. Listen here: www.drcarolministries.com/knowing-and-...

Today we fight back against the power of shame & isolation. We remember who we are. We allow ourselves to be known. It begins today. #knowingandbeingknown #intimaterelationships #booklaunchday🚀 a.co/d/0DgXU7E @ivpress.bsky.social

In May, we have episodes with Andrew Arndt, David Sunde, Manny Arango, @eclaytopia.bsky.social, Arianna Molloy, Kelly Kapic, @erinfmoniz.bsky.social, @carameredithwrites.bsky.social, @shanejwood.bsky.social, Molly Worthen, and @heatherthompsonday.bsky.social Who are you excited to hear?

Yours in five days! Let’s find hope for all our intimate relationships. #knowingandbeingknown #countdown @ivpress.bsky.social

Congrats to @erinfmoniz.bsky.social on the release of her first book! "Whether you are an emerging adult or someone who loves, cares for, and ministers to emerging adults, or a person interested in discovering how the gospel shapes our intimate relationships, you are welcome here." 🔥🔥🔥

It’s getting seriously close to the release of #knowingandbeingknown #liladdycat is ready. Are you? a.co/d/0DgXU7E

Have you pre-ordered #knowingandbeingknown? There is a sale on Amazon a.co/d/0DgXU7E

📖 Read Chapter 1 of #knowingandbeingknown for free. Only 15 days until the May 6th release. 😎 Have you preordered? @ivpress.bsky.social www.ivpress.com/Media/Defaul...

Death & evil are defeated! He is risen! The Kingdom is inaugurated Love drives out fear Hope takes up residence in our souls #eastersunday

Do we really need another book about #relationships? How about a Christian book about #identity, #intimacy #loneliness #shame #fear #gospel #friendships #family #dating #emergingadults #technology & #grace a.co/d/0DgXU7E

Easy to join, easy to participate, no special skills or platform required. Come as you are. Get free stuff. Support and cheer-on a first-time, unknown author. Bring a friend. I would love to have you on the team. 😊 Let’s help launch this book!!! mailchi.mp/982cfda326c6...

Exclusive content! Advanced copy of the book! STICKERS! A pet llama! (Okay, that one’s a lie 🦙). But STICKERS! Join the book #launchteam for #knowingandbeingknown mailchi.mp/982cfda326c6...

A former student of mine wrote this piece. I’m so proud of her! And it’s crazy that this is the culture growing in my own backyard. goodfaithmedia.org/are-you-qual...

Why my friends all gotta write and release amazing books around the same time? Don’t you know some of us work and can’t just sit around soaking up your brilliance?! Dang! @ehmcgowin.bsky.social @ericayreitz @malcolmbfoley.bsky.social @sheilagregoire.bsky.social @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social

Happy St. Gertrude Day! 🍀🐈

My first book has arrived! #knowingandbeingknown Preorder your copy today a.co/d/0DgXU7E @ivpress.bsky.social

🙌🥳#GIVEAWAY! Three winners will be selected on Thursday, March 20th. To enter: 1. #PreOrder your copy of Knowing and Being Known: Hope for All Our Intimate Relationships. 2. Post on your feed: “I preordered #knowingandbeingknown by @erinfmoniz.bsky.social ”

“Intimacy is not found on the level where fear resides. Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance & closeness is dissolved & a new horizon appears.” #HenriNouwen Relationships can be healing. But we must learn how. #knowingandbeingknown

“These days, insecure in our relationships & anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships & protect ourselves from them at the same time.” #SherryTurkle We can fool ourselves with artificial freedom & artificial intimacy. #knowingandbeingknown

EXACTLY TWO MONTHS to #releaseday for #knowingandbeingknown! Let the countdown begin for May 6th! (Asks calmly & naturally) Have you per-ordered your copy yet? Unless you’ve given up supporting first-time authors for Lent, pre-ordered today! #readwomen @ivpress.bsky.social a.co/d/0DgXU7E

Today is a good day to contemplate our mortality together, @bayloruniversity.bsky.social #ashwednesday

“We can't love our neighbor & uncomplicate the friendships we are in if we don't even love our own company. And the way we begin to enjoy our own company is to receive love from the One who created us. The One whose image and likeness we are created in.” #AAndrew #Friendship #knowingandbeingknown

This #offtheshelf #minireview is for another important book about #women & #men in the #church. After the news dropped last year about a historic reversal of men to women in church participation & religious fervor, this book (which is a few years old), is hauntingly

“But all that is far away in ‘the land of the Trinity,’ not here in exile, in the weeping valley. Down here it is all loss & renunciation… We are then compelled to try to believe, what we cannot yet feel, that God is our true Beloved.” #CSLewis #fourloves #knowingandbeingknown

“But there is a paradox in all this, & it is as cruel as it is obvious: as the emphasis on individual liberty has increased, the liberty and power of most individuals has declined. Most people are now finding that they are free to make very few significant choices.” #WendellBerry

Thank you Rob Dixon for endorsing #Knowingandbeingknown! a.co/d/0DgXU7E

“The cross has brought not only peace in our relationship to God, but also reconciliation in ruptured human relations.” - Peter Gentry & Stephen Wellum (Kingdom through Covenant) If we desire healthy relationships, this connection cannot be ignored. #knowingandbeingknown

“Most of the moral and mental and even religious complexities of our time go back to our desperate fear that we are not and can never be really loved by anyone.” - Thomas Merton Let’s say the quiet things out loud about #knowingandbeingknown a.co/d/0DgXU7E

The only thing better than #PuritanValentinesCards is a #NEWBLOG! #knowingandbeingknown #thegoodchair www.erinfmoniz.com/post/i-m-her...

Speaking inquiries for the #booktour are open! www.erinfmoniz.com/speaking Let’s talk about #knowingandbeingknown

Excited to finally read this much-anticipated book. And what could make this even better? The news that author @ehmcgowin was just awarded tenure!! Congratulations on your epic superpowers! #readwomen #householdsoffaith