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 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…
Read moreWhen You’re the Minority
White Specks Jeff and I looked around us that Sunday night. Where was our generation? We were among the oldest in the room. (It still feels like a new phenomenon…
Read moreWhy They Listen to You
“People tire quickly of conversations that are simply ongoing narratives, endlessly repeated narratives, of another time.” – Joan Chittister Aunt Nancy Aunt Nancy is 93 years old. Her husband died…
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