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May 2013

May 08, 2013

Articulating the Mystery of Faith: Christian Wiman’s “My Bright Abyss”

We Christians are sometimes taken to task for the way that we, when embroiled in...

May 07, 2013

Progressive Christians Do Care About Abortion: A Response to Rachel Held Evans

Blogger/author Rachel Held Evans wrote an excellent post last week titled Why Progressive Christians Should...

May 06, 2013

How Mother’s Day 2006 Was the Beginning of the Rest of My Life

This is the story I told at this past weekend's inaugural Speak Up storytelling event...

May 01, 2013

Why I Don’t Call Myself a “Cancer Survivor” (& Why We Should All Think Twice Before Donning a Pink Ribbon)

Three autumns ago, I walked into a radiologist's office after a follow-up mammogram. He pointed...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

A Different Take on Why Bad Things Happen to Good People

Questions around suffering and pain are stock in trade for me as a writer. I...

April 29, 2013

Questions Remain About the “Controversy in Candy Land”

On Saturday, Jana Riess posted a piece on her Religion News Service blog raising questions...

April 25, 2013

[Me & My Naturopath] On Being Unfixable in a World Obsessed with Fixing

A few weeks ago, I took a detour from my naturopathy focus to go see...

April 23, 2013

On Silence and Simplicity & Their Opposites (Or, Why I Have Decided to Keep Writing Despite the Prospect of a “Real” Job and a Paycheck)

My blog has been silent for several weeks now, and perhaps some of you have...

April 14, 2013

A Week When Families’ Stories Made the Difference

As regular readers of this blog know, I believe that storytelling is necessary for having...

April 03, 2013

Meet David, as He Blogs His Way Through Alzheimer’s

At the Potter's House Church in Washington, D.C. (part of the former Church of the...

April 02, 2013

Last Night at Yoga

My teacher was showing us some really wild things she has learned to do with...

April 01, 2013

Because I’m Not Funny Enough to Write My Own April Fool’s Post….

....I turn to my more humorous pals. My friend Rachel Stone (about whose new book...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

No, the Crucifixion is Not About Bloody Child Sacrifice Being Necessary for Forgiveness

In my post Message to the Nones, which countered some popular but wrong-headed notions of...

March 27, 2013

Rachel Stone’s “Eat with Joy”: Why Healthy Eating Goes Beyond What We Eat

It is fitting that I’m writing this review of Rachel Stone’s new book Eat with...

March 25, 2013

Is That the Whir of Helicopter Blades? On Lavish Maternal Love vs. Overbearing Control

I had dinner the other night with my play group/moms' group/book group. We are a...

March 22, 2013

[Me & My Naturopath] Why I’m a Hopeful Skeptic

Fed up with my increasing impairment due to chronic pain, I went to see a...

March 21, 2013

Remembering Gordon Cosby

Word came to me this morning that Gordon Cosby, who founded the D.C.-based Church of...

March 01, 2013

Adam McHugh’s Meditation on Life, Death, and His Hospice Work

Good morning friends. I will be back with some original stuff of my very own...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

Mourning Clothes: A New Retro Clothing Trend?

One of the best things about having very talented writing colleagues and friends is that...

February 25, 2013

Katherine Willis Pershey’s “Open Letter to My Evangelical Friends”

I am still pondering article proposals and book ideas and the wealth of wisdom and...

February 20, 2013

Blog Temporarily Closed for Pondering (and Hauerwas)

One of the biggest struggles with being a writer who blogs is that the time...

February 19, 2013

My Cancer Playlist: On Wallowing, F-Bombs, and How We Suffer

This is a slightly edited version of a post originally published in July 2011 on...

February 18, 2013

Should We All Give Up Reading the Comments Section…Forever?

Two of my friends, both of whom are writers with plenty of experience in the...

February 15, 2013

“Love and Salt”: Two Friends Seeking God with Mind and Heart

Love and Salt: A Spiritual Friendship in Letters is the kind of book that you...

February 14, 2013

To My Children on the Night Before Valentine’s Day

Sugar is the last thing you need, given the gummy “fruit” snacks and cookie-topped yogurts...

February 14, 2013

Let’s Show the Gun Lobby the True “Connecticut Effect”

A lobbyist for a Wisconsin gun owners' association reportedly told supporters at a local NRA...

February 12, 2013

What Kind of Christian Are You? (And Does It Matter?)

Roger Olson, an evangelical blogger here on Patheos, wrote a post last week on "Why...

February 07, 2013

The Little Blonde Girl on the Back Steps

Before buying the house we live in now, we lived in a tiny five-room ranch...

February 05, 2013

It Is Enough: A Christian Social Media Campaign Around Gun Violence

I'm pleased to announce a new initiative, coordinated by me and pastor/writer/blogger Katherine Willis Pershey,...

February 01, 2013

Why I Love Writing, But Don’t Always Like It

I have been on an Alice Munro binge, gobbling up her latest collection of short...