To Pray & Rage

To Pray & Rage

A Reminder from C. S. Lewis about Prayer The calls for prayer and lament this week have risen to a new pitch. On Monday, we learned that hundreds, if not thousands, of women and children were being abused for decades by pastors of the nation’s largest Protestant...
Devotional – COLLATERAL DAMAGE

Devotional – COLLATERAL DAMAGE

Collateral Damage My colleague and I were late finishing up our lecture on Thursday, which meant the professor teaching after us had to stand there as we gathered up our things. I didn’t recognize him, so I started a little small talk to ease the awkwardness of making...
Devotional – COLLATERAL DAMAGE

Devotional – THE LESSON OF LESS

THE LESSON OF LESS They say the line “Cleanliness is next to Godliness” isn’t in the Bible, but maybe it should be. Just google “decluttering,” and you’ll find a whole bunch of websites and books clamoring on about the virtue of having less. Take a look at some...
Devotional – COLLATERAL DAMAGE

Devotional – ORDINARY LIVING

 ORDINARY LIVING Picking out cards is hard. This afternoon, walking the aisles of Target to buy Emma a Bengals shirt (WHO DEY!), I remembered I hadn’t gotten Sara a Valentine’s Day card yet. Call it a whispering of the Holy Spirit. (Sometimes, God decides to save our...
Devotional – COLLATERAL DAMAGE

Devotional – REMEMBER THIS!

REMEMBER THIS  They call her the Iron Nun. She started training for her first triathlon at the age of 48, running her first actual race four years later. Then another three years after that she took on the famous Ironman Triathlon — a grueling 2.4 mile swim...