Marnie Hammar
How to Be Grateful Even for the Broken Things
[This post is featured as part of Begin Within: A Gratitude Series, hosted by Twyla Dawn Franz at The Uncommon Normal.] It’s been fifteen...
Published Works
In addition to partnering with The Joyful Life Magazine, I also write for other publications from time to time. Below are some of those essays and articles.
Marnie Hammar
- Mar 29
- 2 min
Finding Belonging Even When We're Not Chosen
[This post is featured as part of Sarah K. Butterfield's series, Out of Place.] Just weeks before high school started, we left a...
Marnie Hammar
- Feb 11
- 2 min
Holy Conformity Won't Do
[This post is featured in the Anticipation issue of Fathom Mag, February 2021.] It stuck out, an anomaly. In the collection of...
Marnie Hammar
- Jan 19
- 5 min
Five Ways to Combat Christian Complacency
[This article is featured in full on the Living By Design blog. Photo credit: Living By Design by Sarah Koontz.] As winter drags its feet...
Marnie Hammar
- Oct 28, 2020
- 3 min
Running the Race You Didn’t Sign Up For
[This essay is featured as part of Sarah E. Westfall's Not My Story Essay Series.] “Just go ahead without me,” I implored her through...
Marnie Hammar
- Oct 8, 2020
- 3 min
Hi, I'm the Preacher's Daughter: How I Exploited that Label
[This article is featured at Fathom Mag, in the October 2020 "Language" issue. Photo credit: Helena Hertz] I was eight or nine, maybe...
Marnie Hammar
- Sep 17, 2020
- 3 min
The Brave Fight to Hear God Louder
[This post is featured in Becky Beresford's Brave Women Series.] When I was in grade school, I counted the days in between visits to the...
Marnie Hammar
- Oct 9, 2019
- 2 min
When Rejection Crowds Out the Rest of the Story
[This essay was published at (in)courage as a guest post.] I was eleven when we moved from a rural town nestled in Amish Country,...
Marnie Hammar
- May 2, 2019
- 1 min
Will You Run the Race Set Before You?
[This post is featured over at Revelation Wellness, as a guest post for their blog, run on May 1, 2019.] There was a pit of unsettledness...