Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say “infinitely” when you mean “very”; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite….
About five years ago my pastor and I sat down to dinner with a young man who had questions about the Christian faith. I had been conversing with the man…
This week I wrote an article for Her.meneutics that reflected on the most recent Mark Driscoll controversy. Unlike my last Her.meneutics article, of which I was surprised at the backlash,…
As some of you know, I wrote an article for Her.meneutics a few weeks ago that incited the rage of my readers. In all honesty, I was utterly shocked by…
Ever since I started blogging over 4 years ago, my life has changed a lot. I graduated from seminary, worked as a college minister, got married, moved to Chicago, and…
Have you ever looked back on the past year and noticed a few major themes or lessons that God was teaching you? This year, one of those themes has been…
Alright ladies–it’s been awhile since I’ve shared some of the more “academic” stuff I’ve been learning, but there’s something that’s been on my mind for awhile that I think is…
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once praised the influence of her father, saying, “I just owe almost everything to my father [and] it’s passionately interesting for me that the…
One of my favorite stories from my years as a college minister came out of a conversation with a Freshman girl about singleness. We both sat in my office as…
This week I learned two very important lessons: To be grateful for the gift of hearing, and the danger of using Q-tips to clean your ears. However, the link between…
