Oct 22, 2019
Social media and the internet in general can have a pretty negative connotation these days. Broadcasting our lives online and having access to so much information often fuels issues with identity, bullying, stewardship, anxiety, anger, and more. However, social...
Sep 29, 2019
This weekend we celebrated the retirement of one of our event team members who keeps everyone safe on the road. He stood at the center of everyone’s attention (a place he hates) and said, “This is a ministry for me.” And it struck me that everyone feels that...
Mar 19, 2019
Recently while talking about my job, a friend said something about the gravity of it—handling the Word of God, editing the words of teachers who influence millions around the globe. The gravity, the heaviness, the privilege of this work hits me every so often....
Dec 16, 2018
Each week during Advent, my church (like probably many of yours) invites a family up to tell about that week’s Advent candle, read a passage from Scripture, pray, and light the candle. This week they asked me to do that. I really don’t love being on stage and...
Sep 13, 2018
There are many kinds of home, different places we belong, that belong to us. I lived in Oxford for only three months, but it is one of my homes. I belong there. Oxford belongs to who I was and am. It may seem overly romantic to refer to it in that way, but I think we...
Jul 15, 2018
Sometimes I get carried away with thinking I’m independent. I own my own house; I have a grown-up job; I go on solo vacations; I see movies alone. Then the 67-year-old pipes in my own house spring a leak. And water stops flowing in. And everything needs to be...
May 31, 2018
Photo by Olya /Voloshka on Unsplash It doesn’t take a lot of searching these days to find lament. Rightly so, because we hear constantly of God’s image bearers being mistreated, killed, wounded, and abused. We lament. This month, as we’re reading through God’s...
Feb 25, 2018
“No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.” -Lee • Finished East of Eden by John Steinbeck today, another book scratched off my #LiteraryBucketList. This one I got into like its character Tom Hamilton who...
Feb 5, 2018
I’ve been spending time in my notes from a counseling class recently for a freelance project and I was stopped in my tracks by this quickly scrawled sentence. Y’all. This is the goal. This is the goal for counselors, this is the goal for Bible study writers and...
Dec 20, 2017
I’ve seen the pictures and posts on social media. I’m sure you have, too. Engagement photos, birth announcements, job promotions, new homes, wedding pictures. Then, right there in the caption of the smiling photo: “God is so faithful!” We like...
