What feels like praying to you? Is it quilting or serving in the soup kitchen or teaching children or doing your work well and thoroughly? Is it playing music or creating art? Where are you pouring out your life for God? Read more
What feels like praying to you? Is it quilting or serving in the soup kitchen or teaching children or doing your work well and thoroughly? Is it playing music or creating art? Where are you pouring out your life for God? Read more
We cannot know him, follow him, or love him unless we embrace Jesus’ cruciform heart. Read more
The ancient church was called “the Way” because it’s meant to be walked--and it’s impossible to walk it alone (Acts 9:2). We need spiritual fathers and mothers. Read more
Being called to ministry will involve a sensible, loving unfolding of our whole lives in a deliberate direction, some of which we choose for ourselves, some of which we don’t. Read more
It's so easily forget that to be alive is to be the beneficiary of a whole line of giftedness slacking back into history’s dark waters. Read more
The words and ash of Ash Wednesday are a prick to our consciences to turn and truly live. Read more
Ash Wednesday makes the beginning of a season of repentance during which we seek to put our spiritual houses in order. Read more
All too often, we confuse our paying work with our unchanging vocation--and that leads to no small amount of frustration. Read more
Coffee grants me the escape velocity to transcend the dull ordinariness of time and self. This is not good. Read more
When we sleep, we are releasing life and history to the God who never sleeps, who is always at work in ways beyond our knowing. Read more