“Love is patient.” This simple statement has been on my heart and mind this past week after I learned of the death of Jean Vanier, the founder of the L’Arche communities. L’Arche is an organization in which people with intellectual disabilities and typical people lived side by side in community, and Vanier wrote about […]
How to Talk with Your Children (and Friends) about Faith Pt. 2
Years ago, I wanted to pray for some friends of ours, a married couple who had a great interest in spirituality but who hadn’t landed in any one particular faith. I wanted them to get to know Jesus. I thought that relationship would bless them and delight them and that they would experience the fullness […]
How to Talk with Your Children (and Friends) about Faith Pt. 1
“I’m just not interested in the Bible,” Penny said a few weeks ago. “I will never understand how evolution and creation can both be true,” William has told me more than once. “Why didn’t God light up my darkness?” asked Marilee, at the end of a day of fighting with her siblings without any reconciliation. […]
Rethinking Disability
One of the reasons we travel to cities as a family is simply for the experiences our kids have walking through the streets of highly populated areas. They’ve grown up in the country–with the Shepaug river in closer proximity than the nearest stoplight. They don’t know the smell of the city. They don’t know the […]
Participating in Love
A few weeks ago, I was giving a series of talks about the love of God to a group of women in Ocean City, New Jersey. The talks had a natural progression with straightforward titles: The Love of God as the Foundation of Reality, What Keeps Us from the Love of God?, Receiving the Love […]
What Keeps Us from Love?
What keeps us from living the most meaningful life we could live? From experiencing God’s love? What keeps us from healing our social divisions? What keeps us from joy and peace? As anyone who reads this blog regularly knows, I spent a few years wrestling with the problem of privilege, wondering whether there was any […]
