Book Talk: Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans, Part 2
Read Part 1 of this Book Talk here. One of Evans’ stories is about a trip to a Benedictine monastery. She starts off her trip talking with a monk and a visitor about her faith struggles, and neither...
View ArticleRemembering Father Gordon
Dear Fr. Gordon, You heard my last confession, which was many months ago now. But I have been thinking of that moment since you passed away earlier this week. After that confession, I wanted to write...
View ArticleCollegeville, Part 1
A month ago, I had to amazing opportunity to attend a weeklong writer’s workshop for poets at a place called The Collegeville Institute on the campus of St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN. I...
View ArticleCollegeville, Part 2
In my last post I told you about my experience at the Collegeville writer’s workshop this summer. The Collegeville Institute has just released some pretty cool data from all of its workshop...
View ArticleDon’t Check Your Brains at the Door: On Science and Faith
When I was a teenager, I had a Josh McDowell book called Don’t Check Your Brains at the Door. While I can’t specifically remember anything from the book, basically the gist of it was that you don’t...
View ArticleOn My Faith Crisis: Why Now?
A close friend recently asked me why I’m going through a faith crisis now, of all times. I mean, it would be expected for me to have had a faith crisis 15 years ago when my brother died, or 12 years...
View ArticleAre Christian Doubters Judged by Their Beliefs or by Their Acts?
Thank you to everyone who responded in kind on the blog or on Facebook to my recent faith crisis post. Continuing with the topic of faith crises, I’ve been thinking a lot about how people of faith who...
View ArticleScrooge at Christmas
This week my Secret Santa at work gave me a bottle of Coke Zero. I don’t think he realized that the name on the back of the bottle was Scrooge. I laughed when I saw it, but then I internally nodded my...
View ArticleMidwives at Christmas
Something is missing from the nativity scene: midwives. It’s hard for me to believe that Mary gave birth with the sole help of Joseph. Most likely, there were a couple of women helping. Maybe the...
View ArticleFestival of Faith and Writing, From a Distance
This week I’ve been watching #FFWgr tweets. The Festival of Faith and Writing is a Christian writers’ conference that happens every two years. In 2014, I watched the tweets, too. At that point, I’d...
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