A resigned nurse learns to be still and value a new kind of productivity.
A tension of thought reveals itself in physical symptoms.
Explores the spiritual discipline of releasing long-term personal expectations in exchange for more microscopic endeavors toward becoming like Christ.
A Food-a-Rac-a-Cycle for every church…or a new way that leads to old understanding?
Entering into the peace that passes understanding is a constant journey marked by occasional glimpses.
A simple tool can tell a book’s worth of memories.
Within the folds of clean clothes, a mother discovers something about her own mother.
Examining our role in “building” God’s Kingdom here on earth.
Reflections on ambition, identity, fame, fortune and family.
On the search for purpose, via the story of playwright Horton Foote.
Reflecting on identity via a mother's larger-than-life mythology.
A list about hosting guests that could double as advice for how to live one's life.
An overview and analysis of statistics related to single people.
On the beauty of choosing the "by hand" way, while honoring the divine purposes of all human activity.
A reflection on the complicated consideration of where to live.
A call for help transforms personal crisis into communal effort.
Why I volunteer -- and create opportunities for others to do the same.
A reflection on messy friends, neat friends and God's providence.
Chronicling an unconventional friendship, in life and in death.
Modest proposals for the future life of 22,000 square feet and four acres.
Ways to amuse children indoors, but out of the house.
Growing a church community around the centrality of the shared feast.
On trying to live out a costly vision after college.
How what we believe shapes what we make and what we make shapes what we believe.
A personal narrative of resistance and acceptance.
Reflecting on work in Haiti after the earthquake.
The one who stays put reflects on two very different callings within the same family.
On the difficulty of living into human purpose in the way of the resurrection.
What I learned from spending a week with student friends at Huss School.
How mundane details met audacious hope, in the round, on December 31, 2000.