Moab, UT—At the trailhead in Arches National Park, my daughter and I launch our hike on a relatively benign dirt hiking trail, easily followed, marked with a metal sign. As the hike progresses, the trail [...]
Fall stirs in me a longing to gather people around my table, to practice hospitality. After months and months of social distancing and not gathering, I’m thrilled to be able to welcome friends to my [...]
I never really liked the beige Berber carpet in the family room. When we moved in two decades ago, though, we figured we’d eventually update the room, with its very '80s wall of mirrors and [...]
I went for a run this week in the woods. The subzero weather has abated, and things are beginning to melt. But the path shaded by tall, bare trees remains hidden from sunlight, and still [...]
Today we begin our 2021 Lenten series. Let's talk about this, the strangest Lenten season ever, and walk through it together. What practices do you want to engage? What do you want to let go [...]
On a Zoom call with my long-time running buddy Maryam this morning, the day in between her birthday and mine, we looked back at a year. Would we have imagined a year like the one [...]
This is the first in an occasional series on empty nesting, or as my friend Tim likes to call it, spacious nesting. Outside, the soft pewter sky of winter afternoon spits down a thin, bitter [...]
Advent is a time of waiting, and at our border (and indeed, at other borders around the world), travelers are waiting, now, for the chance to find new life. They are waiting for the chance [...]
This Advent, gather with us in this space. Take a moment to breathe, to read very short reflections, to consider the ties between this ancient tradition and the challenges and joys of our current situation. [...]
“Where is God in this mess?” “Does God even hear my prayers?” In my work as a pastor, I hear these kinds of questions a lot. And in some of the situations where I sit [...]
