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Happy birthday to William, who turned fourteen yesterday! This morning, I read a blessing from the book of Numbers. It’s a blessing that has been offered to people for thousands…

What if having a lasting faith isn’t about having the right answers but about learning to ask the right questions? I heard someone suggest this a few weeks ago, and…

After two years of events that couldn’t happen and interrupted plans and convoluted performances and postponed dreams, it is all the more joyful to see our kids being kids. These…

It always feels like too much to go away for any type of retreat. Whether it is time to pray or plan or do yoga or gather with other women,…

Penny performed on stage for the first time in three years this past weekend.  And, as I often do in these moments, I held my breath in the audience. I…

I never know what to do with myself on Holy Saturday.  Saturday comes, and I’m getting ready for people to come over for Easter. I’m stressing out that I didn’t…

So you published your fourth book. What are you going to do now? I’m going to Disney World!!! Yes. My fourth book, To Be Made Well, was released on Tuesday.…

How we can be both broken creatures and creatures who are “fearfully and wonderfully made” all at the same time? I’ve been thinking a lot about that in writing To…

In the recent clashes in churches and schools and everywhere else over critical race theory, people are debating meritocracy: Is America a nation where anyone with talent and hard work…

“When you push away disability, you also push away your humanity. When you push away any fissure of vulnerability, you also push away the tender truth about yourself. You are…