"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person" — Andy Rooney Our 15-year old chocolate lab, Stella, is in her final days. It is a gentle time in our home--ear scratches and belly rubs, extra treats, assurance of our love for her, and lots of reminiscing. I remember the day she stole […]

I am revisiting Jenny Odell's fascinating book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Originally published in 2019, her work feels more urgent today than it did a mere six years ago. The pace of life--of change, of disruption, of technology--continues to accelerate. Most everyone I talk with is not okay. At all. I […]

An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind. Photo by Ryoji Iwata on Unsplash

Into a world even more violent and divided than ours, the apostle Paul spoke words that are stunningly relevant for us today. Don’t hit back; discover beauty in everyone. If you’ve got it in you, get along with everybody. Don’t insist on getting even; that’s not for you to do. “I’ll do the judging,” says […]

Christians have such a weird relationships with hard emotions. I think it is because we often are led to believe that expressing sadness, disappointment, anger, or fear means that we don't trust God, we don't believe God is good, that we are somehow failing God by being less than perfectly cheerful every day of our […]

I was listening to a podcast yesterday and heard these beautiful words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: "The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to […]