Order for Abundance
As we turned the corner into 2022, I felt a deep longing for order. I wanted the piles of books in my bedroom turned into tidy and categorized areas on…
As we turned the corner into 2022, I felt a deep longing for order. I wanted the piles of books in my bedroom turned into tidy and categorized areas on…
Fifty-four years after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was shot and killed outside a motel in Memphis, has anything changed? Two years after the “racial reckoning” sparked by the murder…
For those of you who are new around here (and even for those of you who aren’t), I wanted to take a minute to introduce myself. Here are five things…
Have you watched the Netflix hit Don’t Look Up? Did you notice the part about God? Don’t Look Up is a satire that casts Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as…
I missed out on something crucial when I learned how to read the Bible. I learned to ask three simple questions: What does it say? What does it mean? What…
When Penny was younger, I resisted setting goals for her. The early years of her life were full of measurements and yardsticks and a sense of "falling short" of developmental…
Can our children really make a difference in the fight against racism? Dr. Jemar Tisby, author of How to Fight Racism Young Reader’s Edition, talks with Amy Julia Becker about…
What if you have inestimable worth, and you’ve never noticed it before? A few weeks back, I read about a drawing that was purchased for $30 at an estate sale.…
This Christmas, I felt like Peter and I were living out our own version of the O. Henry short story, The Gift of the Magi. Do you know it? This…
In 2022, I’m trying to practice slowing down, so I was intrigued by Cal Newport’s idea of “slow productivity” in a recent essay in the New Yorker. And yet Newport…