After going on a mission trip last year to El Salvador I came home with a lot of questions. This is #2. What is the role of the Holy...

Last year I went on my first ever "mission trip" with my church and an organization called Filter of Hope. It was a beautiful experience,...

In learning to use one's voice, it's easy to think you're not making any progress. For anyone first discovering that they have real...

Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. Each one should test their own actions. Then they can...

My church is doing a sermon series right now on the effects of religious deconstruction and how to maintain some stable posts in the...

Grief is the process of letting go of the old in order to embrace the new. But like trying to ungrip your hand from a lifeline, it's...

When men get big and loud we tend to believe they have something to get big and loud about. We think they're righting some wrong,...

I just finished Brandi Carlile's memoir Broken Horses and I loved it. It's well written, a bit dramatic (like her) and full of very human...

When trying to heal, humans beings need to develop two essential processes. Good In Bad Out Seems simple enough, but most of us struggle...

You've seen it… A crazed older man rummaging through the store, knocking things off the shelf, yelling erratically, "Where is it? Where...

Other than control, what is it that you want to be free from? And whose hand exactly are you holding to help you escape? If I'm honest,...

Most of us feel controlled in some way by some selfish, unsympathetic authority (our parents? our regulatory board? the IRS?). But on the...

Lately I've been concerned that neither I nor my clients have any idea what normal aging bodies look like. With social media, diet...

Sometimes it feels like I'm one of the only Americans who still likes going to church. It feels like church isn't PC. And if it is PC to...

"If I knew that this run would make NO DIFFERENCE AT ALL in the shape and size of my body, would I still go?" I'm constantly battling...