Face Into the Wind
Greetings from Shelter Island, New York where I'm vacationing after the completion of the manuscript for Grace Sticks. (Next week I'll be back to the regular schedule of 3-5 posts a week.) "Kemah" is the name of my family's home here; the term is a Native American expression meaning "face into the

posted 12:39:48pm Jun. 14, 2013 | read full post »

Mental Health Break: "Dead Sea"
This week's feature comes from one of my favorite bands, The Lumineers, who recently performed in my city of Atlanta. "Dead Sea" is a song for every restless soul w

posted 10:05:49am Jun. 05, 2013 | read full post »

God of the Gaps: Survey Finds Americans Pray More in Disasters
It's another week of hermitic writing, I'm afraid, so you'll be hearing less from me as I push through edits from a second revision. But this morning I stumbled upon a report from Religion Today which I found interesting in light of my church small group's conversation yesterday around prayer and le

posted 10:57:37am Jun. 03, 2013 | read full post »

Talking Albatrosses and Freckled Monsters: The Power of Imagination
The other day as I sent my hubby and kids off to an escape at the beach far away from my manic dash to the finish line on the manuscript for Grace Sticks, I was struck on

posted 2:05:44pm Jun. 01, 2013 | read full post »

8 Reasons God Must Have a Sense of Humor
Here's the beginning of that list I promised earlier, just for starters- 8 reasons for why I'm convinced God has a sense of humor, in no explainable order: 1. God plays with dirt to make human beings and even heal them (like in the healing of the blind man, when Jesus essentially puts a mud pie o

posted 10:44:11am May. 30, 2013 | read full post »