Resurrection Truth – Feb. 4, 2022
“Very often I will avoid the truth until my face goes red like a toddler avoiding her nap; until limp-limbed, she finally stops flailing and falls asleep and receives rest – the very thing she needs and the very thing she fights. When someone like me, who will go to superhero lengths to avoid the […]
Set Me Free – Feb. 2, 2022
“There’s a popular misconception that religion, Christianity specifically, is about knowing the difference between good and evil so that we can choose the good. But being good has never set me free the way truth has.” –Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint, chap. 7
Truth – Jan. 31, 2022
“I thought back to when my children, Harper and Judah, were young and I was unhappy and had come down with a wee touch of hypochondria. The demands of staying at home with a baby and a toddler were too much, and I got sick a lot, which convinced me that something was really wrong […]
This Is Our God – June 30, 2020
“This is our God. Not a distant judge nor a sadist, but a God who weeps. A God who suffers, not only for us, but with us. Nowhere is the presence of God amidst suffering more salient than on the cross. Therefore what can I do but confess that this is not a God who […]
