A List of Prayers to Borrow When You Can’t Find the Words
Whether you’re caucusing in Iowa, teaching in Texas, serving in Omaha, or waiting in New York – If you’re dreaming, moving, staying, seeking, or reading in your own backyard – For those who are rocking...
View ArticleWhat Everybody Ought to Know About Hope
For the long-time reader, you’ll remember I traveled to the Philippines in 2011 with Compassion Bloggers and then again to Uganda in 2014. This week, the Compassion Blogger team is in Ecuador, seeing...
View ArticleFor Your Weekend
Today’s reads are for the weary multi-tasker, the small-talk awkward and the hopeful writers. It’s for those who are grieving and anyone longing for home. Enjoy your weekend, friends. Multitasking is...
View ArticleA Prayer for the Writer
She has denied her gifting for too long. And today is the day to take it back. You have made her a writer but she sits on her hands. Pull her hands out into the light and show her what she needs to...
View ArticleStumbling Through Silence on the First Day of Lent
This first day of Lent is bright today in Greensboro, but the morning I went to see Marion for the first time two years ago was quite different. That day, the air was heavy with fog and questions. At...
View ArticleNew Books Coming in 2016
For the first time in six years, I’m not working towards a book deadline. While I am deeply grateful to get to write for a living, I am also deeply grateful for a bit of a respite this year – to...
View ArticleFor Your Weekend
Today’s reads are for anyone looking for courage: to ask hard questions, to say no to a great opportunity, to bravely speak up, and to finally slow down. Enjoy your weekend, friends. Who Am I? by Emily...
View ArticleThe Life-Changing Magic of Lindsay Letters
When you share your work with the world, you never know how someone is going to respond to it. That’s both the gift and burden of being an artist. (Same goes for being a person, but that’s another...
View ArticleFor Your Weekend
Today’s reads are for the dreamers holding their hope in secret, the mothers who just need a win already, and for anyone keeping their tears to themselves. Enjoy your weekend, friends. Confess Your...
View ArticleA Prayer for the Cautiously Hopeful
We’ve waited so long for results, answers, closure, clarity, or resolution and today it seems like we might finally get it. The news seems good. The outlook seems positive. But we are afraid. We...
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