I’m excited to announce my new book: The Hunger Inside: How the Meal Jesus Gave Transforms Lives, coming out with Paraclete Press on April 5! The Hunger Inside was a labor of love, a map of my own breadcrumb trail to the Lord’s table, a dive through Scripture and story into the depth and mystery of the meal Jesus gave. Here’s a short excerpt adapted from chapter 1: The late, great Orthodox priest, Alexander Schmemann wrote that “Behind all the hunger of… Read more
Jesus calls us to give up our lives, not improve upon them. Read more
As we live and move and have our being in him, our lives—and thus our plans—are drawn to Christ. Read more
Jesus of Nazareth is Adam of Eden, redux and restored, God collapsing the jagged space wrenched open by sin. Read more
Jesus shows up again and again, pegging our lives to a presence running deeper than life and death. Read more
To hurry is not to live truly and well. The desperate life is not the good life. Read more
“Daily life is a continual and increasing revelation of God.” – Thomas Keating Read more
A true heart, one being molded in the image of Christ, is a powerful thing. Read more
Prayer begins with paying attention to ourselves and to God, and that’s where spiritual writing begins as well. Read more
The thoughts we write don’t exist until we write them. This, in my opinion, is the source of writing’s thrill. Read more
