Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s interesting to me how often the hard and the exciting exist side by side in our lives. I don’t…
What My Former Coworker Taught Me About Church
Reading Time: 2 minutesI received a text from a friend and former coworker the other day. She had a question about how we…
Mind the Gap
Reading Time: 3 minutesMost distress and conflict arises out of unmet expectations. In other words, there is a gap between our expectations and…
Thinking Biblically About Hormone Replacement Therapy for Menopause
Reading Time: 4 minutesI had a question posed to me the other day: How can we think about hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for…
Who Would Go to Kmart to See Bon Jovi?
Reading Time: 3 minutesMy husband tells the story of hearing on the radio one Saturday that Bon Jovi was signing autographs at the…
When We Despise Ordinary Help
Reading Time: 5 minutesAs a pharmacist, I am always amused by the story of Naaman in 2 Kings 5. Naaman was a Syrian…
The Grace of a Band-Aid
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne statement that is often used to criticize traditional medicine is that it’s nothing more than a Band-Aid. We are…
The Danger of Going It Alone
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen I reflect on my recent hospitalization and surgery, I keep going back to how long I waited to seek…
How We Are the Same
Reading Time: 3 minutesA few years ago, I went to a meeting. A woman I had never seen before was standing alone, so…
Faith Beneath an Unchanging Sky
Reading Time: 3 minutesMany of my patients are seriously ill. Some of them know they are terminal from the start, others are hoping…
Finding the Note
Reading Time: 3 minutesA few weeks ago, we sang an old hymn in church. Like a lot of churches, my church projects the…
You Don’t Have to Clean Up for God
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen my daughter was elementary age, her Sunday school teacher challenged the class to write a thank you note to…
