2021

How many songs have we heard in our lifetimes that are about love? How many poems have we read that have something to do with love – love lost or love gained? How many stories that have touched our hearts… Continue reading

In this post, I’d like to share with you the way I imagine God, the way I attempt to wrap my mind around whatever it is we are referring to when we say that word. This is a task that… Continue reading

I have spent the past few months wrestling with the idea of failure. What are the full consequences of failing? How does God see my failures? How ought the gospel upend my own view of failure – for myself and… Continue reading

When I began looking for a college at the age of 17, I went to my guidance counselor’s office. I told them I needed help finding the right college. I was pretty sure I wanted to become a professor, but… Continue reading

Mother’s Day is a hard day for many people, for a variety of reasons. If anything, this is amplified in Christian circles, where motherhood is often treated not as a sacred vocation but the sacred vocation for all women, accompanied… Continue reading

“… they press us into a soul-killing performativity aimed at the exhibition of mastery, possession, and control with the tacit assumption that this ongoing work of exhibition illumines talent and the capacity for leadership…. The problem here is that it… Continue reading

The other day I was talking with my stepson about doing some exercise. He’s been wanting to work out for quite some time now, but can’t seem to get it together, you know? Sometimes it’s too cold. Sometimes it’s too… Continue reading