I bought this cute block décor, but realize that its flowery words actually irk me. “Bloom where you are planted” is meant to conjure a visual reminder to flourish within our present season and circumstance, without comparing or competing or striving for what we don’t …
I didn’t want the new year to come. Everyone seemed to be ready for a fresh start, or minimally to put a little more distance between us and that blight of our existence, the year 2020. In fact, when Betty White passed just shy of …
As ownership of individual pronouns becomes normative, the idea of gendered language has become more intriguing to me. I ran into this unexpected article by CBE titled A Non-Gendered or Gender-Inclusive Faith: Lessons from Finnish and German. I was floored by the unexpected ramifications of …
“Have you tried setting up a clear morning and bedtime routine for him?” A counselor kindly offered suggestions when I told her my child was not sleeping well at night and then refusing to go to school in the morning. I smiled thinly, and said …
“This room looks so much bigger when it’s not divided.” My daughter and I had returned to our old home to pick up another load of belongings. She’d wandered into the now-empty room her brothers shared- the room that had once been literally divided in …
There’s a lot of loneliness going around right now. The physical isolation makes us feel distant, and the distance breeds insecurity. We are not only dealing with the question of “Who is still in my pack right now?” but also “Am I still seen? Am …
There’s an interesting passage of Scripture (Luke 10:25-37) where a man asks Jesus, “What must I do to inherit eternal life?“ Jesus flips this back around and asks the man, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?“ The man answers, “Love …
In my last post, I raised two key questions for the church. Today, I will be continuing with question 2, but turning the inquiry inward: Where has the church perpetrated indoctrination inside the church? I really wanted to find a way to make,”Christical” or “Let’s …
My pastor started a series on postchristian culture, which is a truly fascinating catalyst for discussion. (Or perhaps a blog series?) Wikipedia defines postchristianity as: “[T]he loss of the primacy of the Christian worldview in public affairs, especially in the Western world where Christianity had …
Does anyone else feel like they are looping through the Covid version of the stages of grief? When it first started, I was in denial. I naively believed that at the other end of that three-month long quarantine rainbow, I’d be able to return to …