Return: A Theme for the New Year

The guiding theme for my year ahead is "return," but the word isn't as simple as it sounds. [Click title to read more.]

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.]

New Year’s Resolutions and the Myth of Change

Mark my word: things will change for you this year. The person you will be at the cusp of 2018 will not be, God willing, the same person who walked into 2017. [Click title to read more.]

People Don’t Just Get Hungry At Christmas

At the end of the holiday season, many Christians are overwhelmed by the blitz of giving. The problem is that need doesn't just occur during the holiday season; it's year round, and hunger doesn't fade when the Christmas lights do. [Click title to read more.]

My First Ash Wednesday

This season, as we look forward to Easter, my desire is this: to hunger for holiness year-long, and to make love the outward adornment that sets me apart. [Click to read more.]

Merry Christmases

Despite what television tells us, Christmas needn't look any one particular way. The only thing that Christmases need share is a recognition of the glory in Luke 2:14, the miracle about which angels sang. [Click title to read more.]

Ten Things You Must Do Before Christmas

It's coming. Christmas, I mean. It's coming. For some of us - like me, who celebrate a week early or a week late with out-of-town friends and family - it's already arrived. Here, then, is a list of Super-Important Things You Absolutely Must Do Before Or By Christmas. [Click title to read more.]

Christmas Giveaway!

A thank-you giveaway of 10 Christmas snowflake ornaments! [Click title to read more.]

Preparing For Thanksgiving With Hearts of Gratitude

Thoughts on gratitude and some pre-Thanksgiving testimonies that will help us remember the spiritual, and not material, blessings of the season. [Click title to read more.]

A Request for Your Testimony!

For Thanksgiving I'd love to put up a post celebrating God's grace in honor of the season. In what spiritual ways has Christ blessed you this year? [Click title to read more.]