|
|
 For all Your commandments are righteousness. Psalms 119:172 _______________________________________________________________ I was born and raised in Scandinavia (Finland and Sweden) and became a Christian at the age of eleven on my own after having read the children’s Bible I had found in my grandparents attic. Ever since that day I have loved the Bible and its message. I decided early on that I was going to become a missionary, preferably in Africa, but my plans were continuously frustrated. After graduating from High School in 1995 and unable to continue my formal education (only about a fifth of applicants are enrolled by Scandinavian Universities for tuition is paid by the government) I worked and traveled around the world. All my subsequent attempts to attend seminary came to nothing and I felt as if forgotten by God. In 2003 I moved to the US to marry Ira whom I had met in Switzerland two years earlier. To let go of my dream of becoming a missionary was difficult but at least I got to attend Bible College – which proved to be something entirely different than what I had anticipated. Instead of learning more about the Bible, I learned a whole lot about the different opinions people held. I did not enroll for another semester. A year later Jonathan was born and I settled into a life in Suburbia. The concept of American homemaking was somewhat of a shock for a former globetrotter and I began to question the validity of the complementarist mantra that all women are born to be wives and mothers, isolated from the mainstream of life. When Jonathan was one-year-old we leased a B&B and Ira started his own fine dining restaurant. I welcomed work as if it was manna from heaven after staying home for a year but the workload proved to be too heavy to be carried by only the two of us, and two and a half years later we moved to Portland, Oregon. Now that I had more time in my hands and after the inevitable boredom ascended over my life again, I attended a local community college and decided to finish the research I had begun three years before when caring for baby Jonathan. A little over a year later I felt that I had enough to begin the writing process and after an extremely intense six months of writing and re-writing, When Dogmas Die was ready to be published.
|
