I got to participate in the The Porter’s Gate Worship Project in Nashville back in January, where a diverse group of singer/songwriters joined together to write worship songs based on the themes of community and loving our neighbor. I was invited to attend to give a talk about how race and privilege impact community. I […]
Summer Rewind: Why We Still Go To Church
Summertime is the hardest time for us to convince our kids, and ourselves, to go to church on Sunday mornings. They want to go to the beach. They want to play with their cousins. I’m often with them. I like the idea of a long bike ride or a few hours on the porch with […]
Sitting in Silence
I stumbled across a new podcast today called Encountering Silence and started with an interview with Richard Rohr on the topic of silence. I’ve been reading and practicing a lot of contemplative spirituality these days, and again and again, I read or hear people say to start with 20 minutes of sitting in silence two […]
Love in the Midst of the Mess
You may be familiar with the words of 1 Corinthians 13: “Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy. It does not boast. It is not rude…” I have these words framed in my office. For a long time, they hung on the wall of the girls’ bedroom. We memorized this passage as […]
Summer Rewind: Five Books that Have Challenged Me about Race and Justice
I’ve offered a number of book lists related to race and justice this past year since the publication of White Picket Fences (like this list of memoirs). There’s one more from 2016 I want to post here because it offers a different list of books that I was reading as I wrote my book White […]
Scary Mommy Post: When My Daughter Wanted to Quit Dance Class, We Did This Instead
So my daughter wanted to quit dance class, and I wrote about it for Scary Mommy. You may already be familiar with the Scary Mommy website and/or social media. The site’s content is mostly about parenting – especially the challenges that can make it “scary.” I was happy to be able to tell this about […]
