Radical hospitality trumps hate
On Thursday, my friend Jane and I drove to Chicago to welcome a refugee family. Jane’s van was loaded with supplies: linens, towels, pots and pans, dishes, and more—the basics needed to set up home. [...]
Fragile foster kids find a home
Where do the kids who no one wants go? How do foster kids who are "difficult to place" because of their medical challenges find a home? Sometimes, the story of a family captures your imagination [...]
Where’s Jesus in that?
One of the hardest parts of being a "Christian author" is people assuming that your theology or politics aligns with theirs, just because you happen to believe in Jesus, and they do too. I'm sure [...]
Let the Word minister to you
As the early morning light filters through the trees in my back yard, the morning glories along the deck railing lift their faces. I sit, open Bible and journal before me. The birds twitter a [...]
Running and resting
(Note: Yes, I know it's Friday, and we will be giving away a book today! So read this post, then leave a comment about it by midnight Saturday, and we'll pick a winner on Monday.) [...]
Your true voice
To speak the truth--it is a Christian value, arguably. And yet, many of us are afraid to say what's in our hearts, hesitant to reveal ourselves too completely. We have learned, over the years, whether [...]
Living a missional life
I haven't posted for a few days because I've been enjoying having my daughter back home. She's quite jet-lagged and experiencing a bit of what I call "culture dissonance," but home. She had a marvelous [...]
Book giveaway!
My new book Simple Compassion is arriving in stores now! To celebrate, I'm giving away ten review copies here on the Deep Breathing for the Soul blog. Simple Compassion is a weekly devotional that will help [...]
Win this book!
As part of my promise to give away more books and tell you about some great titles that are coming out, I've invited my author friends Cheri Fuller and Sandra Aldrich to visit. You can [...]