Our daughter Kaya is 11 months old and she is really social. She is curious about everyone we pass, everyone we meet. We’ve done quite a bit of train travel the last few months, and now that she’s walking she’s not happy to sit still the whole journey. So instead we walk with her up…
The pastor Nadia Bolz Weber calls Mary Magdalene the Patron Saint of Showing Up. On that dark Friday, when Jesus was hung up on a cross on a hill outside of Jerusalem, his body broken and bloody, the life seeping out of him, Mary Magdalene showed up, when most of his followers had scattered. She…
At the end of the church service on Sunday, I joined our pastor on the stage, and tried to calm the loud beating coming from my chest. Public speaking doesn’t usually unnerve me but yesterday was a little different. I was saying goodbye to two of our closest friends and I wanted to do it…
