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About once a month, I take a moment to introduce myself. Social media platforms are funny places to try to make meaningful connections, but, hopefully, these introductions offer a little…
About once a month, I take a moment to introduce myself. Social media platforms are funny places to try to make meaningful connections, but, hopefully, these introductions offer a little…
I’m so honored to have a post on Ann Voskamp’s blog today. My post begins: Sometimes my life as a Christian feels like a series of self-improvement efforts underneath a…
There’s a mindset around disability that says things like: People with disabilities are always suffering. People with disabilities are a burden. A life with a disability is not a full…
We’ve traveled down south with our kids to learn the history of racial injustice there. But how do we narrate the reality of northern complicity in racial injustice? We started…
I’ve prayed in lots of different ways over the years. I’ve used the acronym ACTS (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication). The Lord’s Prayer has been a guide. I’ve tried contemplative prayer.…
"Jesus says that we are beloved before we do anything right, and after we’ve done everything wrong." - To Be Made Well This quote might just speak for itself. What…
As I return to this space after a few weeks of vacation, I thought I’d start by sharing 5 things I learned: 1. Everyone eats tacos differently. We had a…
I’ll be away for the next week or so. Away in real life, at our family’s beach house on the Connecticut shore, with my stack of books and a bin…
I’m so grateful for the reviews I’ve received recently for To Be Made Well, both from readers and from the Englewood Review of Books and the Presbyterian Outlook. James E.…
How do we create communities where friendship is a possibility among people of differing abilities? Dr. John Swinton, theologian and author, talks with Amy Julia Becker about mutual relationships of…