Becca Hermes, Author at The Washington Institute

Becca Hermes serves with Cru City. She has a Master of Arts from Reformed Theological Seminary. She is married to Nagib, and they have a beautiful, spunky little girl. As part of their ministry, Becca and Nagib provide support to couples walking through infertility.

Articles by Becca Hermes

Faith • Biblical Reflections

The Silent Struggle: Grappling with God through Infertility

Becca Hermes | 13 min read

My leg bounced nervously as we sat in the waiting room at the fertility clinic for the first time. I gripped my husband’s hand harder, hoping for strength and comfort from his grasp. What would they find? Should my husband come back to the room with me? What would we have to do to be...

Culture • Popular Culture

In Praise of a Good Morality Tale: the Simple and the Complex in the Fiction of Elizabeth Goudge

Becca Hermes | 11 min read

Bibliotherapy. Never heard of it? Neither had I, at least by name, until browsing a lifestyle magazine a few months ago. Perhaps you are familiar with this term. For those who aren’t, PsychologyToday describes it as “facilitating psychological growth and healing through reading.” All kinds of books can be therapeutic, and counselors who use bibliotherapy...

Faith • Liturgical Reflections

Advent Meditations: Joy To The World

Becca Hermes | 5 min read

Advent. It’s a season of more than just waiting for the Christ child. It is a season of cultivating our longing for his coming. Wait… Cultivating our longing? I generally want to satisfy my longings, not cultivate them! {I begin to feel the deep rumblings of panic in my soul.} If I cultivate a longing,...

Faith • Liturgical Reflections

Advent Meditations: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Becca Hermes | 4 min read

I love music. And even though I’m sometimes sick of it by the end of December, I really love Christmas music – especially the old Christmas hymns. The popular music of my life changes so quickly, but Christmas hymns remain the same, a musical root that calls me to deep soil, nourishment for my soul....

Faith • Biblical Reflections

Missio on The Tabernacle: The Spiritual Gift of Creating Beauty

Becca Hermes | 6 min read

For my whole adult life, I have wrestled with having creative talents. Some artists know with certainty, early on, what they were made to do. They delight in the joy of creating just as surely as their creative Heavenly Father delighted in creating them. But that certainty has not been my story. My soul comes...

Faith • Biblical Reflections

Missio on Gen. 11: The Babel Barrier

Becca Hermes | 4 min read

Spending time with my in-laws can be a bit confusing. Don’t get me wrong; we enjoy each other. But, you see, they speak a different language from me. I don’t mean the different languages of rural and urban, or East Coast and West Coast, or even British and American. No; they speak Arabic, and I...