How to Pray for Your Friends
Recently, my friend texted me and asked me to pray for her grandmother who was ill. Right that moment, I stopped working on my homework…
Recently, my friend texted me and asked me to pray for her grandmother who was ill. Right that moment, I stopped working on my homework…
My grandmother loved New England. Coastal New England, to be precise. She loved the region so much that she co-wrote a half dozen or so…
I recently visited two of my dear friends who I hadn’t seen in many months due to COVID-19. As we sat around the breakfast table…
I spent two years of elementary school at a private Lutheran School in Wisconsin. That was my introduction to Ash Wednesday and Lent, the Christian…
When my lease ended in November, I wasn’t quite sure where I would go next. I had recently left my job working for a nonprofit,…
A good book challenges and inspires me. Earlier this year, I read “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson, which has made me…
An elderly priest once told me that each Lent, he would give up the same three things: water skiing, skydiving, and watermelon (and he was…
During Lent, it never fails: I’ll crave vegetables all week long, but come Friday, nothing sounds better than a big, juicy burger. I have a…
About 10 days ago when I was wasting time on Facebook (as I usually do), I came across a quiz that caught my eye: “What…
Lent, the Christian season of reflection and renewal, is an opportunity to step back and take a good, hard, 40-day look at our spiritual lives.…