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  • Don’t Fall for Your Own Bullshit

    Everyone needs voices and relationships in your life that call you on your own bullshit. Okay, I won’t speak for you. But I will speak for me. Continue reading

    Don’t Fall for Your Own Bullshit
  • The Streams of My Mother’s Love

    Considering God as Father is not wrong or incorrect. But it’s only one view. And there are so many others. I’m not going to argue that God should be translated as “she” with a capital “S” either, as if flipping… Continue reading

    The Streams of My Mother’s Love
  • No One Else Can Grow Me Up but Me

    How many times during a day or a week do you expect someone else to solve your problem? Or to put it another way: how many times do you feel internally upset or dysregulated and your automatic response is to… Continue reading

    No One Else Can Grow Me Up but Me
  • A Prayer for an Election Day

    On a day when so many feel much is at stake I pray we remember nothing is truly at stake. The things that matter most persist. Continue reading

    A Prayer for an Election Day
  • Transitions, Grief, and the Illusion of “Ownership”

    We usually can’t move to a new thing without leaving something (or many things) behind. Whether it is a physical move of location; changing jobs or vocation; or welcoming or losing a member into a family or community through birth,… Continue reading

    Transitions, Grief, and the Illusion of “Ownership”
  • Welcoming Resistance

    No matter what I want to build into my life—a workout regime, a writing habit, a parenting shift, marital intimacy—I have to face resistance if I want to embrace that lifestyle or task. But there’s something in me that resists… Continue reading

    Welcoming Resistance