An account of overcoming fear of "the other."
Will the walls of the CCM ghetto ever come tumbling down?
Some words about conscious personal care for women, with a warning to those who faint at the thought of seeing The Vagina Monologues.
Reflections on a walk worth the suffering.
A review of Roy Clouser?s Knowing with the Heart: Religious Experience and Belief in God.
On listening as worship and as ministry.
How can we move from despairing over the bad to cultivating the good?
On live performance space as "third place."
On cultivating a new attitude toward the busier-than-thou game.
What do we do when polite conversation has become taboo?
A series of very short essays on meaningful things people have seen fit to keep around.
A book review of Gum, Geckos and God: A Family's Adventure in Space, Time and Faith by James S. Spiegel.
A proposed cure to a very attractive disease.
Cultivating a mindful approach to watching television.
How fostering conversation rather than debate can shape our minds to be changed.
Confessions of a music lover who can't get enough of the enigmatic singer songwriter's juxtapositions.
A new angle on abundance shapes a shift in relationship.
On witnessing a legacy of friendship, sorrow and laughter.
Why confessing our pop culture secrets can be good for us.
On the higher purpose of pop culture debate.
Examining the notion of popular culture in a segregated society.
An unexpected lesson in learning to pray through the fear of loss.
Reflecting on the quality of connections as a single twenty-something grieving a loss.
Calling out the habit of checking the phone mid-conversation.
Reclaiming rituals for whole personhood.
A pastor’s perspective on the church’s silence about sex.
A review of The Virtue of Dialogue by Christopher Smith.
Remembering the origins of the magazine after ten years of publishing.
Lessons from experience in asking others for money.
Storytelling in the time of government shutdown.