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Improving on the Silence
There was this time, after a big move that took me far from everyone and everything that had normalized my life to that point, that I was feeling pretty desperate…
People Need Relationship
When God created Adam, he did so in a unique and personal way: “The Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the…
Feasting to Remember
One of the oldest traditions in my family is our annual “shepherd’s meal,” celebrated on Christmas Eve. Like the shepherds in the fields might have enjoyed on the night of…
A Woman Whose God Is Enough
Cynthia Heald is a woman for whom I hold the greatest respect. For decades her Bible studies challenged me to draw nearer to God. Becoming a Woman of Excellence introduced…
Wide Open Spaces
Our most recent NavPress catalog is very pretty. Most catalogs can’t say that about themselves and ours is no different because it is, as it happens, an inanimate object. But…
God, Who Will Love Me Now? Are You There?
In my twenties, my world changed. When I ended a relationship that I thought held my future, I felt bereft and lost. Who will love me now? I wondered through…
Becoming a Woman of Excellence
I was living in Mbabane, Swaziland, when I found myself in a fog of brokenness: a season of sickness with Hepatis A, Hashimoto’s disease, Epstein-Barr, and chronic fatigue. For the…
Balancing Between True Hope and False Comfort
People are unreliable, but they die with remarkable consistency. As a pastor, I perform a lot of funerals. Weddings, too; for years I kept a mental tally of the marrying-to-burying…
Breaking Free From Painful Memories
There is an old saying that “time heals all wounds.” The idea is that healing for damaged emotions as a result of traumatic or distressing events happens automatically with the…
This Is the Power of Music
It was with hushed anticipation that we all filed out of the noise and bustle of go-home traffic in the center of London into the awaiting performance auditorium. There is…