Sabbatical Announcement and Learning to Rest
Our family is walking away from the daily routines of life and learning to rest. What's behind our sabbatical announcement and learning to rest? Here are the details about our…
Prepare for Christmas with My Advent Ebook
The calendar might say November, but many of us will soon be preparing for Christmas throughout the season of Advent. I love reflecting on the meaning of Christmas and Advent,…
Gratitude and Grief
At its best, gratitude is a way to live in the midst of a world of pain and grief, not a way to cut ourselves off from that grief. Gratitude…
Gratitude and Grumpiness
As easy as it is to rattle off a gratitude list, it's just as easy to rattle off a list of things that cause grumpiness. How is gratitude the antidote…
Embracing Our Common Humanity
I’ve recently adopted “embracing our common humanity” as my shorthand for what I am attempting to do with my writing and speaking. If you look back through my blog you…
Classroom Conversations: To Kill a Mockingbird and the Discussion of Privilege
When I was asked to have classroom conversations with a group of 8th grade students about To Kill a Mockingbird in conjunction with White Picket Fences and the discussion of…
My New Website Launch!
I could not be more excited to tell you about the launch of my brand new website. I hope you will spend a minute (or ten, or far more) checking…
Essential Church Podcast and Privilege
I had a great time talking with Andrew Arndt on the Essential Church podcast about White Picket Fences. He asked great questions that gave me the chance to tell the…
Gratitude Podcast with Family Life Radio
Martha Manikas-Foster of Family Life radio approached me a few weeks ago about an old blog post of mine about Thanksgiving. Back in 2014, I wrote about how Thanksgiving is…
Real Privilege and Love: Quote from White Picket Fences
The real privilege of my life has come in learning what it means to love others, that love involves suffering and sacrifice and sleepless nights and tears and heartache and…
