April Fools…So What?

April Fools…So What?

Can you feel it? Kurt Streeter of the NY Times notes, the “soulful, spiritual aspect of games have elevated them to something like a modern religious experience. The soulful, spiritual nature of what has become one of our greatest faiths – sports.” Whether it is Messi...
Title or Towel?

Title or Towel?

“Lent is a season of preparation, but it should never be morose – an annual ordeal during which we begrudgingly forgo a handful of pleasures. After all, it is meant to be our springtime, when out of the darkness of winter’s deaths, a repentant, empowered people...
A Prayer Paradigm

A Prayer Paradigm

Have you wanted to pray but haven’t known how? Have you ever wanted to cry to God with “groans too deep for words” (Rom 8:26)? Prayer can be a profoundly painful and emotionally complicated experience, wrought with relational  and sometimes private matters. My wife...
Advent | Love

Advent | Love

Do you hear it? Have you felt it? This time of year can churn within us and around us a holy imagination as well as a holy aggravation. Christmas songs for example, great…..until about the 15th one in a row! Take “Mary Did you Know”. Beautiful song, biblically...
From Busyness to Restfulness

From Busyness to Restfulness

To mark the start of the Christmas season, from Every Moment Holy volume 1: “Grant us grace to savor this season as we live it together, that in later days the memory of this place and these times will linger sweetly, shapingOur lives,Our words,Our deeds.” Through the...