An Invitation to Empathize
In order to move from awareness to acknowledgment, we must first be brave enough to accept the historical truths and modern realities.
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How To Forgive When Your Wound is Still Open
Part of our healing comes through lament, acknowledging our pain and the truth of it.
When David Platt asks: Have We Lost Our Capacity to Weep?
We need an experience with the Word in the world that penetrates the recesses of our hearts.
What Love Is – and isn’t
The day everything came to a head was my first experience holding a weeping abuse victim. She was in her thirties; I was nine.
Books, Communion, Conversations, Faith, Guest posts, Hope, humility, Listening, Refiner's Fire, Restoring Wonder
How Change Can Happen When We Share the Messy Parts of our Stories
Jesus spoke life-altering words, but He backed them up with redemptive action—not only on the cross but through the way He loved people.
About Where We’re All From & Refugees & Where We Are All Headed
We all came from somewhere else and we are all going to be like no one else and we all get to belong above all else.
The Scale is Not The Boss of You
If only we would stop listening to our measuring sticks and scales and start listening to our promises.
#MeToo: How to Raise Boys to be Real Men
When the prevailing thinking is boys will be boys girls will be garbage.
No Matter How Small; Imagining a New Human Dignity Movement
It’s always easier to see the blindspots of another culture, and another political position, and another’s heart, than it is our own.
When There’s No Happy Hallmark Ending: How to Face Pain
Have you ever looked into the eyes of another woman and known in your deepest soul that she understands pain and suffering unlike most? That’s Lindsey Wheeler — and I…
What Hanging Off the Edge of a Mountain Teaches Us About the Love of God
The thing about the love of God is that its depth and purity is so beyond our comprehension that it can be a lifelong process to get to a place where we understand that He loves us anyway.
When Your Best Ideas Happen in the Most Unexpected Places
This is the heart of the matter: God can do anything.
How do we silence insecurity for good?
It’s time to stop the theft of your identity and gain stability through rescuing the significance of the person you were created to be.
How to Navigate Growing Older: What Is Good For Us to Do All Our Days Under the Sun?
As the sun rises and sets from decade to decade, what is it all for?
Be the You that You Dream Of: How to Change What You See When You Look in the Mirror
What was the truth: what I felt and heard and interpreted in the culture, or what God spoke over me through a psalm?
