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May 2013

May 23, 2013

The Kingdom Comes One Lonely Step at a Time—Until We Are Not Lonely Any More

Significant lifestyle changes (or even small changes) for the good of our earth and its...

May 22, 2013

Factory Disasters in Bangladesh, Consumerism, and Original Sin

I approach buying clothes for my children with the same compulsive attention to my kids'...

May 14, 2013

Does God Hate Clutter? I Used to Think So, But Now I’m Not So Sure

All of our stuff can distract and overwhelm us, but it can also provide context....

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...

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 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...

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 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 14, 2013

Lonely People in Basements with Guns (& Why They Matter Too)

From all the fraught conversations I witnessed or participated in after the Sandy Hook shooting...

March 11, 2013

When Conflicting Stories Are Both True: Illness, Identity, and the Tales We Tell of Living with Disability

In his vast and gripping book, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search...

March 07, 2013

Bless Those Who Curse You (& Don’t Call Them Eugenicists, Moral Monsters, or Murderers)

A friend recently sent me an article written by an Australian man who has the...

March 06, 2013

How the Story of a Surrogate, Expectant Parents, and a Baby Reveals the Pitfalls of Repro Tech

Fundamentally, it is simply a sad story, one that took place just a few miles...

February 2013

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 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 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

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 06, 2013

Abortion Isn’t the Only Reproductive Issue for Christians to Care About

I have a post on Think Christian about how the Christian preoccupation with abortion has...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

Things to Ponder Before Undergoing Prenatal Testing

My friend, colleague, and fellow Patheos blogger Amy Julia Becker has a new e-book titled...

January 23, 2013

A Message to the “Nones”: Don’t Reject God Because of Human Suffering or Christian Bullshit

It's one of the most notable cultural statistics of our time: According to the The...

January 18, 2013

December 2012

December 21, 2012

Broken Bones, School Shootings, Divine Intentions, and Why We Suffer

As the one-year anniversary of my book publication approaches in January, I’m devoting Fridays from...

December 18, 2012

On Blogging in Response to Tragedy

As I sat on the sunny bench in my front yard on Friday afternoon, where...

December 17, 2012

“There but for the grace of God”?: Grace, Darkness, and the Sandy Hook Shooting

As I huddled beneath my flannel sheets Friday night, two of my children safely in...

December 14, 2012

I’m Pretty Sure Today IS the Time to Talk About Gun Control

I came home from a lovely lunch with my mom to headlines that 27 people...

December 12, 2012

Preparing a Way for God to Enter Our Busy Advent World

My Advent posts this year have centered on a single theme—that honoring Advent does not...