Category: Blog

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On Holy Ground

Calling my dad a real estate developer is a bit misleading. A typical “development” for my dad was finding an old block of real estate

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Garage Sale Lessons

One summer years ago, I shocked my son by saying, as I began sorting through stuff that I thought we needed to have a garage

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When they go low,

I’m wondering how or if we can hold on to something like Michelle Obama’s hopeful call while also engaging with a vile man doing all

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Of Faith and Fiction

A sermon is invariably made better by telling stories, but a story is never made better when it sermonizes.

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On a Sunday Afternoon

We met in the parking lot of the country church on either side of which we had lived, my father the pastor and his the

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Never Take More Than Half

When my writing crosses the line into sentimentality, I am taking more than half, by which I mean that I am doing my own emotional

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WWJP: What Would Jesus Post?

Normally, my relationship with social media is complicated—but on my birthday, it feels fun. Messages, pictures, and love pour in.

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