In a world of pain, can one person—one action—make a difference? Becca Stevens, author of Practically Divine, talks with Amy Julia Becker about the healing available through the practice, practicality,…
Healing begets healing. Those were the words that came to me last week as I looked at a story in the gospel of Luke where Jesus heals a man with…
Anxiety often wakes me up in the morning (not to mention in the middle of the night). My concern over the to-do list and my unspoken fear about what will…
A friend of mine called the other day. She had Covid, so she decided to do some genealogical research to while away the hours in quarantine. She soon learned that…
I am so grateful for the early readers who were willing to endorse To Be Made Well. Thank you, Heather Avis, for taking the time and for your encouraging words!…
Learning the history of enslavement and racism illuminates the path to repentance and repair. Lisa Sharon Harper, leading faith and race activist and author of Fortune, looks at the power…
In her book Suffer Strong, Katherine Wolf writes, “It seems that God does give us more than we can handle—sometimes much more. And yet He does this so He can…
Our need for healing is both universal and particular. We all need healing. And yet we carry particular wounds. Shame, guilt, fear. Pain, disease, hurt. Hurt we have caused and…
24 hours after my essay for the New York Times came out online, I learned it was also in the print edition! So that was exciting. But I also learned…
As we pay attention to pain and ask for help, we are already taking the third step toward healing. The third step is to, in Father Gregory Boyle’s words, “surrender…
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