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Resources for your spiritual journey

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

WHAT YOU READ I WILL FOLLOW

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GUEST BLOGGING

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WHAT ELECTING A SEXUAL PREDATOR FEELS LIKE FOR AN ABUSE SURVIVOR

CHILDREN AND YOUNG MOTHERS

PATHOES

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AS FLOOD WATERS RECEDE

HURRICANE SURVIVORS: AN INVITATION TO LAMENT

Teaching

Rejection message

This talk focuses on how Jesus works and uses us in spite of our rejection of God. [Mark 6:1-13]

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Genesis 12 message

This message focuses on what God promises Abram and what he promises us in our current climate

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God as Mother

This message taps into the nurturing nature of God and his motherly care.

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Sometimes the best thing to do is stop.

‘No, thank you,’ she blurted, ‘I’ve had enough suffering in my life. I don’t need homework!’ Stunned into silence, I walked away, mumbling that I hoped she’d have a good day.

A Tale of Three Trees

Once, a young man sat with his back resting against the tree as I walked past. He was gazing upward, laughing with pure delight. “It sounds like rain when the leaves blow,” he told me. “It does!” I smiled.

What is a Duelo Box?

One of my favorite parts of getting ready to send my book into the world (nearly a year ago!) was putting together grief and hope tool kits for some of my early readers. I made some extras so I could continue sharing them.

The Case for Writing Our Grief

Two weeks after the first stories were posted on that North Carolina wall, I burned them with rosemary (for remembering), mint (for love), and copal (for honoring the dead and for purity) as the holy offerings they were, asking for the God who promises to be near the brokenhearted to send each of them a sense of goodness or grace as I did.

Wild Goose Fest

I am on a plane headed to North Carolina to take part in the Wild Goose Festival. It’s the first time I’ve had a chance to be there since 2019. I hope to see you there.

a Shepherd’s Voice

When I was six years old, I recited the twenty-third Psalm into a microphone as big as my face one night at church.

We don’t get to choose how long we’re here, but we get to decide how.

I’ve been thinking about ways of being I want to cultivate so that when I am old(er), I’ll be kind and gentle and maybe even a little bit wise. I’ve been thinking about it because I lost a parent last November. And because I’m a grandmother, which looked and sounded extremely ancient to me as a kid. I’ve been thinking about it because some of those I host in spiritual direction have been considering the kind of people they hope to become when they reach old age. Not for the first time, I am spurred on to love and good deeds as I bear witness to the stories, wisdom, and good questions of others.

The Sacrament of Friendship

I’ve been thinking about how all life emerges from the womb of relationship. The Trinity is three beings utterly themselves yet inextricably connected. And we’re invited into the holy communion of Parent, Child, and Spirit together.

Seashells

I was in Tennessee when John Piper gave his famous “Seashells” talk at Passion’s One Day on a cold and rainy spring day in 2000. If you listened to the Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, that message’s significance was explored in episode 6…What I loved (and still love) about what he said that day is that it is a call to live for God and for others, to not waste your life but to spend it well. It’s a chance to consider, as Mary Oliver asked in “The Summer Day,” “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Piper’s critique of the toxic individualism and acquisitiveness bound up within the American Dream was apt.

What I have come to realize, however, is that he missed something significant about embracing rest and appreciating (and tending) creation