Family
Family life is holy ground — and it is also exhausting, complicated, and full of surprises. These posts explore what it looks like to live out faith in the middle of it all: in the car with kids asleep in the back seat, in the rhythms of Advent and Christmas, in the grief of loss and the practice of presence, in the invisible labor of love that rarely gets named. Whether you’re a parent, a partner, a sibling, a caregiver, or just someone trying to figure out what it means to belong to one another — there is something here for you.
‘A bad guy was killing people’: A parent’s response to the nightmare of gun violence
It’s 3 a.m. and the moon is glowing softly through the wide bedroom window. Why am I awake? I look to the side and see…
Parent in training: a review of “Bless This Mess”
My five-month-old just fell asleep. Now I have anywhere from 20 minutes to two hours to “get something done.” This phenomenon of sporadic, indefinite hands-free…
On parenting, poverty, and privilege
It’s been two months since our family abruptly said goodbye to the mission we were serving in Honduras. We left because our five-year-old daughter came…
Namesake
“Lord, have mercy/ On my descendants/ For they know not/ What they do/ For they know not Who you are.” ~ “Pillar of Truth” by…
Fear, faith and the flu
I am not a germaphobe by nature, but this year’s flu season has me in a tizzy of microbial paranoia. Daily news reports about the…
Again
I tense up slightly as I see my daughter toddling over to me holding the telltale green and blue box, replete with several cartoon dinosaurs…
Jesus is way cooler than Spider-Man!
“Why is Jesus cooler than Spider-Man?” asked a seventh grader. His question wasn’t completely out of the blue. He, along with dozens of us spending…
More than a table
They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts. …