CCblogs Network
Selected posts from around our network of affiliated bloggers
Another, again, anew
I knew we were meant to have daughters. Then God gave us a boy, and another, and another.
Big mistakes
Nobody sits around wondering what their life's besetting sin is going to be. Maybe we should.
What keeps you going?
After our time in the pediatric cardiac ICU, we brought home a healthy baby. Others made funeral plans.
Washing feet at a church gathering is a political act
The ritual washing of feet in the way of Jesus witnesses to an alternative social order.
Your body will tell you
Our bodies know before our minds when something in our lives is wearing us down.
Prayer in the face of deep pain
It can feel like a feeble offering to pray, but I find it harder not to.
Seeing God’s Spirit everywhere in the world
The Spirit didn’t come down at Pentecost. Eyes were opened to God’s presence.
The ascension story can inspire us to be more fully part of the world
This is not a unblemished body rising to heaven. This is Jesus in the flesh, God carrying embodiedness through to the end.
Children behaving in church
We go to church to worship, not just to be polite.
Talking with our families about school shootings is painful, but necessary
Our son told me his strategy for getting to safety. I hate that worst-case scenario planning is his reality.
Rachel Held Evans’s labor of love
Rachel’s work changed the trajectory of American Christianity, but she was always grounded and generous.
An unexpected Holy Communion
Before I could say the customary words, she reached for the pottery chalice and took drink after drink.
Seeing beauty amid our brokenness
Our spiritual lives are like kintsugi pottery—mended with gold leaf along the cracks.
Wanting to do the dishes
We’re preconditioned for self-gain and not for self-sacrifice. We need God’s help not only to do better but to want to do better.