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The Prodigal Son’s Older Brother
He had written in my mid-year evaluation that my preaching was, and I am quoting directly, “pitiful.”

Joy on the Baseball Field
You’d think my most joyful moments would be some epiphany in a worship, at a retreat, or on a mission project. But, no, it happened

Life Finds a Way — The Cat in the Attic
My husband greeted me with an unexpected statement: “I’m pretty sure I heard meowing in our attic at about midnight last night.”

A Church Ready to Receive Her
Theology is not learned simply by listening to it — but by singing it, speaking it, and embodying it in worship.

Here to Get It Right
Brené Brown sometimes defines humility with this sentence: I’m not here to be right, I’m here to get it right.

More About Pain than Leadership: What 40 Years of Ministry Taught Me
He asked, “So, do you have a group to deal with all that pain?” When I didn’t speak, he said, “Well you do now.”

Sheltering Fecundity
Someone had placed a tomato cage over the smooth dirt that hid the turtle’s carefully prepared nest.

A Little Boy from Riverdale
Of course, we never met. Bob is three years older than I am, closer to my sister’s age. He went to Catholic school.

A Book and Author Straight Outta Paterson
Garret Keizer is one of America’s great creative non-fiction writers, who, like so many great writers, toils away in relative anonymity. His work has appeared

Life Finds a Way – Rhubarb’s Scattered Seeds
The annoying part about growing rhubarb? Only a few weeks after the plant begins to grow in the spring, it expends a tremendous amount of

Catechism in Cook’s Meadow
Shedding some of these formal structures for the spiritual formation of my children has become a radical invitation to trust the Spirit’s guidance in my

The Cereal Aisle, Church Aisles, and Better Than
It’s no longer enough to simply say, “I’m a Christian.” We feel compelled to attach more labels: conservative/progressive, Calvinist/Arminian, premillennial/amillennial,