Have you ever experienced this? Occasionally something occurs which seems to carry not a single flaw. Amidst all the brokenness of life an oasis…
Loving the Rich (and Us)
Community / Faith / Spirituality
An All Too Common Story “Tom” is a doting father of four kids: 3 boys and one infant daughter. (When Tom’s daughter reaches dating…
Material Boy: On Artifacts, Discernment, and Elites
Community / Discernment / Pluralistic World
Andy Crouch’s Culture Making, is an important book written by an insightful writer. It warrants wide discussion. It is also strangely troubling. Perhaps this…
Listening Before Writing
I have a new journal, creamy white lined pages in a black moleskin cover with an elastic band that holds it closed. A much…
A Faithful, Messy Purity
Community / Faith / Spirituality
There is a difference between keeping ourselves pure, and keeping ourselves aloof from a broken reality. It’s a huge difference. The first is courageous;…
Using Words to Wound Instead of Heal
Community / Family / Maturity and Flourishing
It is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then…
To Be Where You Are
Community / Creation / Family / Ordinary Life
Spring was cancer season for friends. (You might want to cancel friendship with us.) When Kosmo (Carol Kosmicke) began to experience little seizures and…
Youth Culture and Growing Up
Community / Faith / Family / Maturity and Flourishing / Pluralistic World
It is impossible to think about “growing up” in modern America without considering the role of the “youth culture” which every young person—even those…
Crying Through Their Cuts: The Stark Reality of Physical Self Abuse
Community / Maturity and Flourishing / Safe Place
Kevin sits alone in his dark dorm room on a Tuesday night. To his professors and friends, this 20 year-old college sophomore is a…
Homosexuality: Speaking the Truth in Love
Community / Creation / Family / Hospitality / Pluralistic World / Spirituality
There are few issues that have generated more political heat and extreme rhetoric, more anger and hatred, confusion and pain, than the issue of…