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Thankful Lists: How To Go Cold Turkey With Complaining

This Thanksgiving, I’m reminded again of Helen at the assisted living center who regularly tells me she hates her life and wants to die. From a pragmatic standpoint, it doesn’t really help that Helen doesn’t believe in a God who [...]

The Blessing Attendant: A Lesson in Gratitude

Every week, as I pull out of the parking garage at one of the client companies I serve as a corporate chaplain, she is there in the little booth at the exit taking tickets, dispensing change, smiling and engaging in [...]

5 Ways to Put Coveting To Rest

I appreciate the sentiment of Emily Dickinson:  ”Consider the lilies- is the only commandment I ever obeyed,” she once quipped (as quoted in the intro to Rachel Held-Evans’ A Year of Biblical Womanhood). Because while I used to think that [...]

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Mental Health Break- "The Mission" with Ennio Moriccone
The soundtrack to the movie, "The Mission"- about a group of Jesuit missio

posted 1:10:49pm May. 19, 2013 | read full post »

Saturday Silliness: Alternate Titles for Grace Sticks
After finishing Barbara Brown Taylor's Leaving Church- more thoughts on this wonderful book later- I picked up Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (Reading Kali

posted 10:16:06am May. 18, 2013 | read full post »

Comedy Central Bible Study
Every Friday morning I lead a little support group/Bible study/worship service/open confessional/gripe session/gossip fest at a local assisted living center. When the friendly neighborhood "workplace chaplain" shows up, she is greeted usually by the same women. There are the atheist depressive an

posted 10:58:39am May. 17, 2013 | read full post »

Official Release of "Mom in the Mirror" Today
Today marks the official release of friend Emily Wierenga's book, Mom in the Mirror. Wierenga, a former anorexic, and Dena Cabrera, an expert on eating disorders, teamed up to write a book that tackles issues of post-pregnancy body image for any woman who has struggled in this area. But the book

posted 10:27:51am May. 16, 2013 | read full post »

Renaissance Fair Church
The following reflections conclude my presentation for the hip Presbyterian Women of Clairmont Presbyterian Church. (The full, multi-media presentation, titled "Losing Our Religion:

posted 11:24:09am May. 15, 2013 | read full post »


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