What Can Your Fear Teach You?
Fear doesn’t have to disappear, but rather it can serve as one of many guides in our lives. If we ask it the rights questions, it keeps us safe and points us toward what we believe will make our lives whole.
Easter, if Explained by my Garden
The dark soil beneath us was never dead - it’s the most alive thing in here. Death doesn’t make sense in this economy. It’s all self-giving creation, over and over again. How lucky I am to bear witness.
Why Palm Sunday is like a Pride Parade
In that economy, in which dust in turned into people and people turned into dust, every fiber of the universe is used to create something else. There is no throwaway moment, no throwaway person, no part of our lives that cannot be used to bring healing and wholeness into our lives and the world.
Lent for Beginners
I’m honoring Lent again this year. This counter-cultural, odd celebration of the finite. I’m taking stock, giving up, looking within, and hoping for a deeper life until I become the ash and dust.
You Become What You Worship: How Habitual Pathways in the Brain Shape Your Reality
That’s what worship is. Practiced attention. Practiced worth. Connecting your life with things that matter, so that when you open your eyes in the morning, there is a shorter distance between you and possibility, wonder, and love.
Wow! We're all going to die. Isn't that Funny? Life in three lines.
If you had to describe the meaning of life in three sentences, what would they be?
My 2018 Reading List - Books about being human
Do you have a resolution to read more this year? I did in 2018 and here's my list of 24 books that entertained me, inspired me, and changed my understanding of what it means to be human.
Jesus and Christmas Explained (In One Paragraph)
When people talk about "keeping Christ in Christmas," which Christ are they talking about exactly?
Thanking the Challenging Parts of You
There is some power hidden in plain sight that comes in learning how to give thanks for the parts of our lives, and selves, that are harder to live with.
You Great Unfinished Symphony (13 min read)
Being unfinished is good and terrifying news. It means we get to keep growing up, and usually means we have to.
Come and See
Don't lose your anger, but don't get lost in it either. We are called to turn tables over at the temple in the morning and build heaven on earth in the afternoon.