Considering ways of knowing in a season that calls us into our bodies.
A review of the new book Fasting by Scot McKnight.
A time of sickness becomes a time of revelation about the interconnectedness of body and spirit.
Mixing metaphors on a holiday of metaphors in a class on...metaphors.
An adult wrestles with youthful images of identity.
Spring rolls around again with broken earth and broken promises.
What bodies -- young or old or vibrant or dying -- can teach us about God and ourselves.
How can our Christmas rituals proclaim good news for sad people?
Is this really what Jesus had in mind?
A short story about a girl in the hospital and her twin in the mirror.
A poetic reflection on incarnation.
On Protestant theology and the revival of discipline.
What the iconic doll taught us beyond -- and sometimes instead of -- playing nice.
A review of the film Black Swan, featuring Natalie Portman as a professional ballerina.
A reflection on the significance of the human body.
Excavating the meaning and practices of humility.
A review of a controversial toy that asks us to wrestle with what's "natural."
On what came after growing up as an indoor girl.
Wrestling with church as a single mother.
Love covers a multitude of sins, if we let it.
A short fiction piece about life in the wrong body.
On hearing a call toward equality for all people, tinged with a twang.
Savoring the variable pleasures of home among the Great Lakes.
Grappling with the meaning of pain and the suffering body.
Reflecting on the trajectory of a life attached to social networks and technological devices.
Remembering a mother who loves to cut a rug.
Yea, though we walk through the valley of forbidden activities...
Looking back at the life of a friend who was inspiring and unique, inside and out.
Thoughts on the beauties and transgressions of the human body.
Responding to revenge porn victims -- and ourselves -- with compassion.