The Sounds of Advent: Music to Contemplate the Season
For many of us, the traditional holiday trappings, Christmas parties, and family gatherings won’t happen this year. My wife and I have thrown an annual…
For many of us, the traditional holiday trappings, Christmas parties, and family gatherings won’t happen this year. My wife and I have thrown an annual…
My life has a lot of drama. In my work as a pastor, I help people through their most difficult moments: family conflict, guilt, sickness,…
Sooner or later, it happens to everyone. A friend gets sick, loses a loved one, gets fired, or something else just as terrible. They need…
The city of Chicago, where I live, has been under a shelter-in-place order for over a month, like much of America. I think most of…
Lent is a period of reflection, when I examine my life to see how I can be more faithful and loving. However, I don’t just…
When my wife and I moved to St. Louis, 700 miles away from our friends and family, we were pretty lonely. I was going to…
You probably know someone like me. I’m that guy who can’t stop tapping his fingers on the conference table. I’m the one clicking his pen…
I opened my eyes to see the two heads of paramedics, hovering over me. I could barely remember my name. “What’s the date?” one head…
Just over a year ago, my wife and I celebrated 50 percent of our lives together. I called it our “fifty-percent-iversary.” We had been together…
My first year of marriage was tough. Kristan and I had just graduated from college, gotten married, and moved to a new state, far away…