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June 2018

June 13, 2018

…Stand Up Eight

A few days ago, I wrote about five ways to survive depression. The fifth suggestion...

June 11, 2018

Five Practical Things That Helped Me Survive Depression

Last week I wrote about the 18 months when I was in a deep depression,...

June 09, 2018

What I Remember About Depression Was The Darkness. And The Friends Who Waded Through It To Get To Me.

There's an island called Depression. It's so dark, only the people who live there can...

June 03, 2018

Conversational Spanish: Finding The Words We Really Need To Say

When I found out I'd be traveling to Costa Rica to speak at a conference,...

June 01, 2018

Jesus Changed My Hands

For the next five days I'm speaking at a seminary outside of San Jose, Costa...

May 2018

May 28, 2018

The Paris Spiderman: Being Hope To A World On The Edge

On Saturday afternoon in Paris, 22-year-old Mamoudou Gassama, a refugee from Mali, was on his...

May 24, 2018

Five Surprising Health Benefits of Smiling

Last week I wrote about the one-word piece of medical advice my doctor gave me...

May 23, 2018

One More Cup Of Tea: Practicing Emotional Hospitality In A Hostile World

The weather in San Francisco abruptly changed two days ago. It went from being sunny...

May 21, 2018

Love In All Its Forms

On Saturday morning as I was putting on scrubs and clogs and pulling my hair...

May 16, 2018

The One-Word Piece of Medical Advice That Changed My Life

Somehow my cancer treatments affected my ability to fall -- and stay -- asleep. So...

May 15, 2018

Where Is God When We Hurt The Most?

I spent the weekend speaking at the Bent Not Broken conference, a gathering of cancer...

May 13, 2018

When Mother’s Day Hurts Your Heart

When I was 28 years old, I received a call from my OB I'd gone...

May 11, 2018

The Book I Needed To Read But Couldn’t Find

One of the best pieces of writing advice I ever got was, "Write the book...

May 10, 2018

Twelve Years Ago Today I Almost Died.

Twelve years ago today I was lying in Yale-New Haven Hospital. It was the day...

May 09, 2018

What, Who, How & When Are You For? (Because Being Against Isn’t Enough)

This week I've been thinking a lot about the word "for." Because, while it's important...

May 07, 2018

Three Things Evangelicals Should Stop Saying In Defense of Trump

The last few blogs I've written have been an expression of concern about why evangelicals...

May 06, 2018

Sunday: The Most Cognitively Dissonant Day In Evangelical America

This morning, millions of evangelicals who voted for the current president, and continue to not...

May 04, 2018

The National Day Of Prayer Is A Waste Of Time (If It Doesn’t Change Us)

In 1952, President Truman instituted a National Day of Prayer. It falls on the first...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

Wide and Long and High and Deep

This week I had the opportunity to stand on the rim of the Grand Canyon...

April 18, 2018

What Matters More Than Any Thing

Yesterday I flew home to San Francisco after spending the weekend with my brother and...

April 09, 2018

The Gift Of Doubting

Yesterday at church, the New Testament reading was from John 20, where Jesus appears to...

April 05, 2018

Bolder Than The Boulder

I woke up on Monday morning wondering what it means for us to live out...

March 2018

March 31, 2018

Sitting in Saturday

Every Easter weekend, people repeat that saying, “It’s Friday, but Sunday’s coming,” as if to...

March 28, 2018

The World Needs Heroes, Not Celebrities

His name was Arnaud Beltrame. He was 44 years old. He was the first officer...

March 23, 2018

Ashes, Ashes: What Jesus Really Came To Save Us From

On Ash Wednesday this year, I had the opportunity to offer Ashes to Go at...

March 17, 2018

Saint Patrick Wasn’t Irish: A Reminder That Love Knows No Borders

Today, we celebrate Saint Patrick's Day, the day on which a bishop who served Ireland...

March 14, 2018

Jesus Didn’t Give You The Right To Bear Arms: Why Christians Should Walk Out Today

The Founding Fathers operated on the idea of Manifest Destiny -- that God predestined white...

March 12, 2018

God Doesn’t Write G-Rated Stories (And Neither Should We)

A few days ago I asked the question, "Why do Christians tell crappy stories?" I...

March 08, 2018

Why Girls Are So Amazing

It’s International Women’s Day, a day to honor women and remind ourselves why girls are...

March 07, 2018

Living In The Middle

Every story has a beginning. Every story has an ending. And every story has a...