Articles By: Pam Hogeweide

Pam Hogeweide is a cleaning woman by day and a kick-ass writer by night. She makes her home in Portland, Oregon with her husband Jerry and their two teenaged children. Pam is a tattoo collector and has noticed that this makes some people think she's cooler than she actually is. She and her family are a part of The Bridge, a church with a history of evictions and the rowdiest worship crew in the Pacific Northwest.

The Unladylike Writer

The Unladylike Writer
“I cannot relate to this at all,” said the young woman with brown eyes full of curiosity. “I’ve never been told I couldn’t do something just because I was female. My family and the church I grew up in affirmed women to be everything God has called us to be. I never experienced what you’re...
February 3rd, 2012 | Burnside Sells Out, Social Justice | Read More

God, Occupied

God, Occupied
The Occupy Movement has gotten the attention of many as this movement continues to spread to cities around the world.  What started as a single site protest in New York City, known as Occupy Wall Street, has become a worldwide phenomenon in a span of weeks.  Just a week ago I was looking at a photo...
October 28th, 2011 | Social Justice | Read More

No Preaching Allowed

No Preaching Allowed
In the mid-section of her ordinary life, my friend Denie, whom I’ve known since before we were old enough to vote, felt what she described as a call of God to minister to the homeless. She wasn’t sure what that meant for her life, but she was full of faith and unction that she had received a bonafide...
June 14th, 2011 | Featured, Social Justice | Read More

Collaboration: A New Kind of Leadership

Collaboration: A New Kind of Leadership
We talk often about pastors needing gifting and skill with teaching, mentoring, counseling, managing, etc… the list goes on.  Today’s pastor has heavy demands upon her or his leadership to be essentially a super Christian, caused in part by the distorted expectations followers of Christ put upon...
June 18th, 2010 | Featured, Social Justice | Read More

downsized faith {the myth of greatness}

downsized faith {the myth of greatness}
Most people will live unremarkable lives that are soon forgotten after they’ve passed on.  The overwhelming majority of us won’t change history or leave a lasting legacy worthy of a museum or a biography. We’re born, we live, and then we die.  All pretty much behind the scenes. In a landscape...
March 31st, 2010 | Featured, Social Justice | Read More

Resisting the Irresistible Shane Claiborne

Resisting the Irresistible Shane Claiborne
In the summer of 2006 I took a copy of Shane Claiborne’s debut book, The Irresistible Revolution, on a family camping trip to the Nehalem River in northwest Oregon.  As we tented under a canopy of firs and cedars, my husband and I traded the book back and forth as we enjoyed our time in the forest. Claiborne...
September 30th, 2009 | Featured, Social Justice | Read More