Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen Anxiety Feels Like a Storm You Didn’t See Coming Anxious thoughts are like summer storms in the midwest. You…
Gospel Hope for Past Mistakes
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat if your biggest regrets—about your body, your past, your choices—aren’t meant to haunt you, but to lead you into…
Honoring God With Your Body: More Than a Health Goal
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne thing on Facebook that always stops my scroll is a photo of myself. A college friend will load a…
Even if He Doesn’t
Reading Time: 2 minutesMinistry—along with life in general—can break your heart. The soft-focus promos for small group curricula don’t typically emphasis this, but…
Being Jealous of Jane: When Envy Strikes
Reading Time: 2 minutesI woke up the other day with a task weighing on me. It needed to get taken care of that…
A Small Beginning
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt was a Sunday evening in the spring. We were cooking out at a friend’s apartment. We watched as the…
Navigating Controversies: Lessons from a Decade off Blogging
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen I stopped blogging ten years ago, the Internet was in the middle of a controversy. And now another controversy…
Deeper Idols and Answered Prayers
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask…
Book Review: Descriptions and Prescriptions
Reading Time: 3 minutesProzac changed society. Its approval, just a couple of years before I entered pharmacy school, ushered in a new class…
The Dangers of Bad Counsel: Lessons from A Well-Trained Wife
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs I was reading the memoir A Well-Trained Wife, I was saddened by the times the author sought advice and…
The View from Titus 2
Reading Time: 3 minutesI told her you were an experienced grandmother. It came from our church nursery director as she was introducing me…
Book Review: A Well-Trained Wife
Reading Time: 3 minutes“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Leroy Tolstoy, Anna Karenina In the…