My Response to the Naysayers

In mid-2010, I agreed to be interviewed for a secular women’s magazine. The reporter presented the article to me in such a way that they were really interested in female…

WANTED: DGM INTERN

Dirty Girls Ministries (DGM) seeks an unpaid intern to provide DGM and Executive Director Crystal Renaud with administrative support in Kansas City. Candidate should model a Christ-like lifestyle and attitude of…

Laurie Comes Clean

This testimony comes from a woman currently enrolled in our Group Leader Training. One of the exercises in the curriculum is to write out your story. I am so excited…

Need Accountability? We’ve Got Exciting News.

Addiction creates isolation and causes women to feel alone. One of the things we hear a lot or even most often from women at DGM is the desire to have an accountability…

To Never Feel Like Her Again

Last weekend I had the opportunity to hold a book signing at a church in Nevada. A great community of people who exemplify grace to the broken and downtrodden. As…

Cleaning Up After the Elephants

We often get fixated on the elephant. The big pink elephants that stomp around the rooms of our lives. You know which ones I am talking about. It’s the ones…