What’s on Your Spiritual Shopping List?
What’s on your shopping list? Does it reflect an investment in stuff? Or in people? I put the salad in an old Cool Whip bowl. The brownies in a plastic…
Read moreDon’t Jump to Conclusions; Jump to Grace
Edward was in line to get gifts for his kids. He was young, maybe 25. Black hair, brown skin, dark eyes. His accent was Hispanic. He watched us white ladies…
Read moreWelcome the Outsider
Have Enough Favorites? Brian brought me Vietnamese spring rolls Thursday night. He had made spring rolls a couple weeks earlier and brought them to our English as a Second Language…
Read moreWhen We Lose Another Author – Goodbye, Rachel Held Evans
“My story is about moving from certainty, through doubt, to faith. It’s not about the answers I found but about the questions I asked, questions I suspect you might be…
Read moreOrdinary Is Underrated – The Ministry of Ordinary Places
“Making the world better for one person makes the world better.“ – Shannan Martin The Unqualified I walk into the chaos on Wednesdays. People are lined up outside. People are…
Read moreDo You Belong at Church? – Day 6 of Handmade
DAY 6, OCTOBER 6 Belong “God doesn’t like people to be without a place. Out-of-place people always have a place with God.” – Caleb Kaltenbach When someone asks, “Where do…
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