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Revisiting ‘Christmas Jesus’
9 years ago, intense grief transformed how I think about Christmas…and God, the incarnation, being fully human, and suffering. I treasure experiencing God the way I did when I was plunged into the turbulent waters of grief. But what does the ‘real Christmas Jesus’ mean for us if we’re not the ones choking and grasping…
A Surprisingly Simple Way to Stay Calm in Conflicts
3 Ways Sitting Down Has Been Changing my Parenting As a part of becoming a Certified Parent Coach with Connected Families, Aubrey and I had a 4-session package with the lovely Marni Love. We were discussing a big concept in the Connected Families framework: Slow-Low-Listen, and it reminded me of a season we were in…
Every Moment Productive
Endless productivity and self-improvement can be an exhausting idol. But what’s the antidoe?
Where’s Your Faith?
Reading the Gospels is still a bit tricky for me, I won’t lie. Jesus’ words often come in terse questions or statements. It’d be so easy to read Jesus as exasperated with the disciples, even contemptuous*, like a grumpy parent asking a forgetful child, “Where is your brain?”
But I’m pretty sure Jesus doesn’t do…
Living with the Impossible
I can’t get enough of the Peaceable Kingdom. Give me all the art, all the songs, all the happy moments of holy imagining perfect shalom. Peace with God, peace with our bodies, peace with our neighbors, peace among the nations, peace in and on and through the entire creation. My mother-in-law shared a powerful song (that’s…
Coming Up for Air
Hope for the Sojourn + A New Way to Read “O Star of Wonder, Give my daughter the gift of wonder. The gift of a curious soul. The gift of not needing all the answers. Spare her the suffocation of closed-mindedness and the loneliness of arrogance.” — Shannon K. Evans, Feminist Prayers for My Daughter (emphasis…
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