On reading the Bible with Johnny Cash during Lent.
Can a rule of life turn a Martha into a Mary?
On the relationship between solitude and serving others.
On Protestant theology and the revival of discipline.
Announcing a 2011 commitment to create a poem an issue.
On the loss of love letters in a technological age.
On scrubbing consumerism's stain out of our cleaning rituals.
A reflection on the ways in which film can shape who we are and who we wish to become.
A review of Instagram, a photo sharing social networking platform.
Remembering the year past through a selection of artfully crafted books, albums, films, paintings, beverages and more.
Lessons from a history of accidentally going without.
Thinking about getting organized during Lent.
Recounting a beverage battle that led to new insight.
Confessions of a chronic fast eater.
Lessons learned in a global household, over a batch of local pasta sauce.
A meditation on changing expectations for time and spiritual disciplines.
A review of the book 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess by Jen Hatmaker.
On the benefits and challenges of technology.
How others responded when I gave up my computer for Lent.
On the hard-earned gift of graceful movement.
Learning to see value in the waste of our lives.
Looking for God outside the rules.
On the discipline of seeing Cincinnati at a slower speed.
Reconsidering a family trait for persistence.