Death, Beauty, and Learning How To Muddle Through

Sometimes the grief is worse, not better. At those times, God comforts me with beauty. [Click title to read more.]

Consolation, Desolation, and Stumbling into the Light

The aftermath of loss isn't what I expected. [Click title to read more.]

The weeping sower is a marvelous emblem of hope and grief in the Christian life. [Click title to read more.]

In the aftermath of a loss, love becomes clearer. [Click title to read more.]

Where else can I go? Nowhere but here, especially in darker days. [Click title to read more.]

God doesn't always work in either/or. [Click title to read more.]

Sometimes the way we think about prayer changes the way we think about God. [Click title to read more.]

Generosity goes beyond tithing and giving to those in need, and we should integrate our perspective on money into our life in broader ways.

Don't lose the strangeness and the wonder of what it means to really believe the fundamental tenets of the faith, [Click title to read more.]

Love costs us something. But the answer is never to pull back. [Click title to read more.]