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February 2014

February 25, 2014

An invitation to be ready (to be needy)

I chase my almost-three-year-old around the bedroom with the batman t-shirt. He busts out of...

February 24, 2014

If King Wrote Us a Letter Today (a guest post from Grace Biskie)

Throughout the month of February, Patheos has invited its bloggers to contribute to a conversation...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

Embodied: Communion and Pregnancy

By the time I was pregnant with my first son I was learning to...

July 2013

July 17, 2013

One Good Phrase: Amy Young (Grace to you and peace from God)

Amy Young is a new blogger-friend in my life and I'm thankful for the chance...

May 2013

May 22, 2013

One Good Phrase: Mihee Kim-Kort (Be different.)

Mihee Kim-Kort is whip-smart, kind, and somehow able to get at the nitty gritty of...

March 2013

March 21, 2013

Some words in other spaces…

I've been writing in some other places this week and I'd love to scoot you...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

Why I love Mom’s Group

Last week I sat in the small room with twelve or so women. One of...

January 16, 2013

One Good Phrase: Peace of Christ be with you always (Seth Haines)

I'm excited to welcome Seth Haines as our first guest writer in the "One Good...

December 2012

December 18, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: It’s almost Christmas!

Children singing “Away in a Manger” and sharing the stage with one of the...

October 2012

October 18, 2012

Walking to Church: Sometimes the Hard Thing Makes the Beauty

A couple of weeks ago, Christianity Today posted an interview with Eric Jacobson, author of The...

October 12, 2012

Women in Ministry Series: On Failing at Ministry

I've been a fan of Ed Cyzewski ever since I first discovered his "Women in...

September 2012

September 18, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: Blessing in the Leaving

As we walk into the church, I think about the last Sunday in our church...

September 17, 2012

True all the way through (A Deeper Church post)

I'm very excited to officially announce that I'm joining the ranks at A Deeper Church,...

September 12, 2012

{This Sacred Everyday} Mihee Kim-Kort

On Sunday mornings, after I drop the twins off in the nursery, and quickly run...

June 2012

June 04, 2012

What Makes a Pastor? Or Linda Horne and the Great Mystery

“I solemnly swear…” Her lip twitched, her eye twinkled. “I solemnly swear…” we repeated, our...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

Girls and Great-Grandmothers and all the Mothers between them

A couple of Sundays ago, I had a phone date with my 90-year-old...

May 17, 2012

Why I didn’t make it to small group last week

It was a good day, but a long one: the house in disarray. Another week...

April 2012

April 25, 2012

{Practicing Benedict} Compassion and Sober Judgment

“The abbot or abbess, once established in office, must often think about the demands made...

March 2012

March 13, 2012

Fainting + Blistery Walks + Baptisms and New Churches = Thankful

A Thankful Tuesday List: My tendency to hit my funny bone and faint is kind...

January 2012

January 30, 2012

The Host Raised

One of the things I most love about the intentionality of liturgy is how suddenly...

November 2011

November 07, 2011

All Saints Day

Today we celebrate All Saints Day. We ride in the car to our new church,...

October 2011

October 20, 2011

‘The Evangelical Rejection of Reason’

If you haven't yet read Monday's op-ed piece in The New York Times, now is...

September 2011

September 01, 2011

How ‘the ordinary becomes a container for the divine’

My brother and sister in law gave me an Amazon gift card for my birthday....

June 2011

June 13, 2011

Restoration: The Sword of the Lord and Me

I remember the first time I left a family conversation, excused myself to the bathroom...

May 2011

May 03, 2011

Thankful Tuesday: Mystery and the Rally to Restore Unity

If you haven’t heard, Rachel Held Evans has officially declared this week the Rally to...

March 2011

March 07, 2011

Entering Lent

Lent is my favorite season of the Liturgical year. I love it for a lot...

November 2010

November 29, 2010

The Waiting

Yesterday was the first day of Advent. The word comes from the Latin, “Adventus,” which...

September 2010

September 15, 2010

Preemptive Love

This was the first official Thankful Tuesday that you haven’t heard from me. I may...

August 2010

August 02, 2010

Why I call myself a “Christian.”

Since Anne Rice’s declaration of her rejection of “Christianity” last week, the blogs I read...