I’m Thankful For Flexible Traditions

We don't always have to do things the way everyone else has always done them - and that's great. [Click title to read more.]

I’m Fine With What I Don’t Know

I can't logically prove every foundation of my faith true; if I could, I'd be able to invent it myself, and I'd have no need for God. God's love, God's providence, God's promises: I trust those things not because my intellect has determined for me that they are certain, but because I believe that what God has said is true. [Click title to read more.]

Stop Making Failure Easy

One of the best things we can do is to get out of our own way. [Click title to read more.]

Empathy After The Fact

If we only ever feel empathy after encountering something personally or through someone near to us, we have a problem. [Click title to read more.]

Five Strategies To Stop “Learning Loss” In The Church

Rather than learn or study or interact with the word of God on our own, we're often depending on relationships to do it for us. While that's a fine practice, it's becoming a struggle for people to engage with God outside of a relational context, on an individual level. And that's a problem. [Click title to read more.]

Shhhh. (Sometimes The Best Thing You Can Is To Keep Quiet)

Solicitous silence is a practice we could stand to engage in more often. [Click title to read more.]

How I Find Good Christian Books

A good book is hard to find, sometimes. Here's how I look for one that's just right. [Click title to read more.]

Thank God For The Closed Doors

Our response to closed doors in our lives gives a lot away about what we prioritize. It's time to change the way we think about them. [Click title to read more.]

Short-Sightedness Can Ruin You

What strikes me the most reading the stories of the Bible's vow-breakers is that our arrogance often goes much deeper than we think: we really do believe we know ourselves better than God does. [Click title to read more.]

Shibboleths and Gatekeepers

The only word necessary to cross the great ford that separates us from God is the name of Christ, and anyone can say it. May God spare us from becoming self-anointed gatekeepers over minor and insignificant issues. [Click title to read more.]