Yesterday, Dan King, Marcus Goodyear, and I sat at a virtual table and talked about race, church, and the Body of Christ. We logged on a few minutes before the recorded conversation, and we had also talked by phone, FB messages, and email in the days leading up to the conversation. Somewhere along …
ICU
Each summer, the women in our church read and discuss a book together. It's a slow, easy way to stay connected in the laid-back pace of the season. Some years, we meet every week and other years we meet once a month or so. It depends on our schedules. No pressure. You don't even have …
Degrees
I thought I might melt in New York City. I thought I'd just sweat myself right into a puddle of DNA, right there on the corner of 14th and 7th (or was it 17th and 4th?). I stood on the sidewalk, in a sliver of shade cast by the tall brick building at my back, and I watched the crowd of …
Coming Clean
Yesterday was one of those epic travel days; the kind we all try to avoid. In the airport terminal, I stepped away because, honestly, does anything good come from a crowd of angry people? And sure enough, the man wearing the fraternity ball cap, and the woman wearing her workout hoodie tied around …
Please Don’t Fold
I don't have this all figured out, but what I do know is that — somewhere between that infant sleeping (or not) in the crib, and standing at the end of the driveway to send that same child out into the world — there comes at least one moment in every parents' life where they know they have …
Invitation to Rest
About two years ago, I almost left the world of blogging. I was feeling pulled and tugged in too many directions, without a clear sense of where I fit, why I was blogging, and why any of it mattered. I felt a bit squeezed. So, I took a break. I didn't write for other sites, I didn't guest post, I …