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On the Wilderness and Unexpected Grace
Greg and I have arrived home from our stint on the Colorado River, and, as I mentioned, we were not kicked to death, even a little, by donkeys.
I was kicked to death a little by my sleeping bag, but I learned, after grumbling secretly to myself for 3 nights about the design of my bag and basic things that any sleeping bag engineer should know — like the obvious fact that scratchy … Continue Reading “On the Wilderness and Unexpected Grace”
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Community Question: What Do You Do When You Want Faith and Can’t Find It?
I wasn’t going to write another serious piece today, because I wrote about the Ladder out of Depression yesterday, and who really needs to read another lyrical, sappy, heartfelt post so soon? NO ONE. No one is who. But then you all RUINED EVERYTHING. And by “everything,” I mean you ruined my plan to write about the One Main Difficulty in Sharing a Hotel Room With Friends, which, specifically, is Farting, because When? and How? … Continue Reading “Community Question: What Do You Do When You Want Faith and Can’t Find It?”
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The Real Reason I Still Go to Church
“If Christians say stuff like that – that you’re teaching your kids to love what is evil – why do you even go to church?”
The question came on Halloween after I posted this on Facebook:
… Continue Reading “The Real Reason I Still Go to Church”Someone asked me recently how I can justify participating in Halloween as a Christian. “Don’t you know you’re teaching your children to love what is evil?” he said.
And I’m not opposed to Christians sitting this one out
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On Grace, Waves and How to Look at Rocks
My friend Lynn lost her husband unexpectedly last year. She came home to find Jon unconscious. He died from a stroke a few hours later. And so Lynn has found herself at the crossroads. Again, really, because Lynn has lived enough of life to know that the paths we walk are winding, and we don’t always know what’s around the next bend.
Lynn went to the beach at the one year anniversary of Jon’s … Continue Reading “On Grace, Waves and How to Look at Rocks”
