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.
Christmas and the work of women
Even today in households where division of labor is not definitively gendered, women do the work of Christmas: To stretch the dollar to make a…
Detachment and a relational economy
Our relationship with the stuff of our lives can be complicated. Look around the space where you are sitting. Whether it is an office or…
Lest we feast unto our own judgment
I sometimes joke that I want to start a cooking blog where, instead of telling the same formulaic stories about “my grandmother used to make…
There are no words
“There are no words,” she tells me. As she sits on the couch across from my chair, she nevertheless fishes for the box of tissues…
KPop Demon Hunters is the escape – and the hope – that I needed
You’re all I can think of, every drop I drink upYou’re my soda pop, my little soda pop While the city around me is subject…
Of Fullness and Famine
“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.” – Desmond Tutu I was…
“Good Inside”: A restorative Christian approach to parenting and beyond
I was a few hours from home, towards the end of an eight-hour drive from visiting family in Nebraska. It was dark and my three…
The Kingdom of Heaven is Full of Mansions
I spent my early childhood in the rural South. The bulk of my social interactions were with our artists’ community of hippie Christian homeschoolers, but…
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