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Bestselling Dallas-area author on what the church needs to learn about teaching emotions
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New York Times bestselling author and Dallas-area resident Jennie Allen, whose latest book was published this week, has been teaching the Bible since she was 17. “I met Jesus, and I literally just fell in love with him,” she said. “I had to talk about it; I was annoying all my friends.”
Allen started a Bible study with girls from her high school, and they met in her family’s living room to study the Book of Revelation. “It sounded interesting to me as a 17-year-old. I didn’t know how complicated it was,” she said of the famously-difficult book.
Her reach has since grown considerably. She has an active social media presence, with over 175,000 followers on Facebook and over 400,000 on Instagram. She also founded and leads an annual conference for Christian women called IF: Gathering, which will hold its 10th edition Feb. 23-24 at Fort Worth’s Dickies Arena. Last year, the conference had 50,000 in-person and virtual attendees and its livestream was viewed over 600,000 times in 129 countries, Allen’s press team said.
Allen’s 2020 book Get Out Of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts has sold over 1 million copies and spent 36 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, according to her press team. Her new book Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It has made Amazon’s best-seller list. To promote the book, she appeared Thursday on the Today show.
Allen, 47, said her big break came in 2010, when she was offered a deal to write two books and seven Bible studies by a Christian publisher. “I had no platform whatsoever,” Allen said. “I didn’t deserve that.”
She has since written books on topics including mental health and faith. Her most recent one, she said, reflects a change in how she views emotions. It was informed by lessons she’s learned since the pandemic, when she met with a small group of friends and a counselor over Zoom. “We came together to carry each other’s heavy stuff,” she said.
The counselor helped Allen and her friends learn how to listen to one another’s feelings without shaming or judging emotions she said they’d otherwise see as “negative.” “They showed me that, when they spoke to my emotion with their emotion, instead of trying to fix me, I felt seen and safe and comforted,” Allen said of the group.
In her new book, she shares the lessons she learned, drawing on insights from the Bible and modern psychology. As she wrote, Allen read books from psychologists including Chip Dodd and Lisa Feldman Barrett.
In all her work, Allen said, she aims to share the “last 2%” of her life that even other vulnerable people might hold back. In Untangle Your Emotions, she talks about her husband’s experience with depression and her own anxiety around her children moving far from home. “I think why that’s embarrassing is it feels like a controlling, crazy mom,” she said of sharing her experience.
But it was important to do so, she said. “The Bible says ‘mourn with those who mourn,’ because our brain is meant to heal as we share the hard things.”
Part of her journey with emotions has involved shifting her perspective on parenting, Allen explained. “Once I got comfortable with ‘negative’ emotions, or uncomfortable emotions, I could sit with other people in them. My kids found me to be a much safer place.
“The most beautiful moments of parenting — for me, it’s been apologizing. And just saying I’d like to do this better, and I’m sorry that I didn’t.”
Allen hopes the thinking that transformed her parenting can help change the way the church teaches about emotions. “We don’t have a good theology of emotions,” she said. “We tend to make people feel guilty for being emotional or having emotions, when what a difficult emotion needs is comfort.”
Allen has a vision for the church that looks different. Citing Romans 8:1 — “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ” — she said it “means that we should be the safest place to struggle, to feel fear or anger or sadness. I do believe we have that potential.”
Joy Ashford covers faith and religion in North Texas for The Dallas Morning News through a partnership with Report for America.
In typical Philadelphia Eagles fashion, the franchise has been busy, transaction-wise, over the last few days.
The Eagles were knocked out in the Wild Card Round by the San Francisco 49ers and have started getting ready for the long offseason ahead. That already includes a lot. The Eagles signed eight to reserve/futures deals on Monday. That’s not even close to all, though. On Tuesday, the Eagles announced that the franchise has removed Kevin Patullo as the team’s offensive coordinator after a roller coaster of a season offensively.
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On top of that, the Eagles announced three more futures deals on Tuesday. Philadelphia announced that it has signed tight end E.J. Jenkins, offensive tackle John Ojukwu, and running back Carson Steele to reserve/futures deals. Of this group, Jenkins arguably is the most interesting.
The Eagles were busy on Tuesday
“The Eagles signed three players to future deals: tight end E.J. Jenkins, tackle John Ojukwu, and running back Carson Steele,” the Eagles announced. “Philadelphia has now signed 11 players to future contracts after inking eight on Monday. TE E.J. Jenkins. Jenkins signed with the Jets after going undrafted out of Georgia Tech in 2023. The tight end first joined Philadelphia’s practice squad in 2023 and spent the entire 2024 and 2025 seasons with the Eagles. He has played in 10 games for the Birds, two this past season, taking his only NFL catch for a touchdown.”
Philadelphia’s tight end room is completely up in the air heading into the offseason. Dallas Goedert is a pending free agent after spending the last eight seasons with the team. Goedert was third on the team with 60 catches, to go along with 591 yards and a team-leading 11 touchdown receptions.
The tight end on the team with the next-closest number of receptions was Grant Calcaterra with nine for 76 yards and a touchdown. Kylen Granson had seven catches for 40 yards. The Eagles don’t have a long-term solution in place at tight end. Calcaterra and Granson are also free agents this offseason, like Goedert.
Jenkins is 27 years old and has just one catch for seven yards and a touchdown while appearing in 10 games for Philadelphia. He’s likely not the long-term answer either, but with Goedert, Calcaterra, and Granson all heading to free agency, keeping at least one potential option with the team throughout the offseason is positive.
Tight end arguably is the position to watch for Philadelphia this offseason.
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FC Dallas officially opened preseason this week, with manager Eric Quill beginning his second full season in charge of the club. On Monday, players and coaches took to the training pitch at the Toyota Soccer Center for the first time in 2026 as preparations for the upcoming MLS season got underway.
“It feels like you’re a kid again. Even as I coach, I don’t touch the ball, but to be able to touch the grass and see the youthful exuberance, energy, and the guys getting back with their chemistry, it’s really fun,” said Quill. “It’s a lot of fun; the hour goes by fast. I’m just looking forward to the whole season.”
For players like forward Logan Farrington, there was a relief to be back on the pitch after a couple of months away from Frisco.
“The first day, I think everyone is happy to be out there on the grass with one another,” said Farrington. “The weather was great today, the ball was flying around. There were a couple of loose touches, but that was to be expected. It feels great to be back and have everyone around here.”
In 2025, the club struggled to find consistency in the opening months of the season before turning things around over the final two and a half months of the regular season en route to a playoff appearance. Quill is hoping to take those final two months and expand on that positive momentum into the new season.
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“Last year we were trying to set a foundation, which I think we did,” said Quill when comparing his first preseason last year to this year’s. “Now it is about how we evolve in year two. That is the goal, in the ways we need to evolve and execute that evolution every day.”
Dallas will train in Frisco this week ahead of a trip to Portugal next week, where the club will play a trio of matches before returning home for games against MLS opposition in February — a stretch Quill has emphasized as critical to building cohesion early.
“Every day matters,” stated Quill. “Every day that you walk through the building matters. Also, self-reflect and be your own worst critic, and how you want to get better and improve. How we grow these relationships with all of the new faces, you rely on a lot of leadership to connect the dots of that locker room tightness. As we grow in preseason, it is all about how fast we can become a team.”
For FC Dallas, the message from day one is clear: the work for 2026 has already started, and there’s no time to waste.
Suspect wanted after hospitalizing a 26-year-old
A 26-year-old victim remains in critical condition on Monday night, as his family tells FOX 4 the hit-and-run collision on Sunday morning caused severe head trauma, leaving little to no brain function.
DALLAS – A 26-year-old victim remains in critical condition on Monday night, as his family tells FOX 4 the hit-and-run collision on Sunday morning caused severe head trauma, leaving little to no brain function.
What we know:
John Rodriguez is by his son’s bedside at Methodist Hospital, pleading for him to pull through. At the same time, he is also pleading to the public.
26-year-old Johnathan Rodriguez was dropped off by friends outside his Dallas neighborhood early Sunday morning after celebrating his birthday.
Just before 3 a.m. near W Davis St and N Westmoreland Dr, surveillance video shows the son in the median area. As he turns to the right, and that’s when a dark-colored SUV hits him and keeps going.
“I’m just shaken and shocked. My son is fighting for his life,” said John. “Just help us please, help us.”
“Just, please, if we could get the viewers to help and help bring this person to justice,” said the victim’s uncle, Frank Carrizales.
This is what the video captured just before the moment of impact.
Dig deeper:
The family is walking up and down Davis St trying to find video to send over to police. Dallas police confirm to FOX 4 that this is a hit-and-run investigation. By the time officers arrived on scene, the driver was nowhere to be found.
A freeze-frame of the dark-colored SUV reveals that the back left taillight is damaged.
A vow was given from the father, who is leaning on the overwhelming love pouring in.
“We are going to find him. We are going to find him. I guarantee,” said John.
“He has a lot of support, and they are praying for him,” said Carrizales.
What’s next:
The family is offering a reward to anyone who provides Dallas police with information.
There were some drivers who chose to pull over to help and provided a vehicle description to police.
Dallas investigators are using that information to try and find this driver.
The Source: Information in this article was provided by FOX 4’s Peyton Yager.
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