Faith and Doubt
When Your Worst Nightmare Becomes Real Life
I cried in church yesterday morning. It’s become a weekly occurrence, salt drops sliding from my face in the middle of a pew. Usually they come during the singing, when the words on the screen don’t match the state of my soul. But sometimes tears come from a random memory of my daughter, or at…
Read MoreMy Social Media Modus Operandi (or How To Be a Better Facebook Debater)
My husband’s favorite analogy for my approach to social media is cock-fighting. He likes to call me “the female Michael Vick of the blogosphere.” When I post something particularly controversial, he launches into his impression of me and snipes, “Kill Whitey! Discuss!” I must protest. Sure, I love to throw bait out, like “What do…
Read More“Will There Be Faith? A New Vision for Educating and Growing Disciples”
With so many young (and not so young) people walking away from faith these days, parents and church leaders are asking themselves why people don’t embrace the faith of their childhood and make it their own. In “Will There Be Faith? A New Vision for Educating and Growing Disciples,” Thomas Groome presents an approach to…
Read MoreWorship Series Epilogue: If We Sing What We Really Mean
In May of this year, I wrote series of posts on worship. This morning I spotted this Youtube video which makes the perfect epilogue to that series. (If you are reading this post in your email, click here to view the post and video on my blog.) Posts in the worship series: How You Can…
Read MoreFaith Is Not Belief – Deeper Story
It was the kind of sermon I’ve heard all my life — intellectual, loaded with facts, focused almost exclusively on getting the hearer to believe a certain statement or point of view to be true. We’d prided ourselves on our charts of memorized verses and stacks of notebooks crammed with sermons, and we called that…
Read MoreMen Are From Mars, Women are from WordPress
[My Husband’s Perspective on Living Life with a Wife on the Web] Joy and I had just put the kiddos to bed. We plopped down on the couch, exhausted, with a bowl of fresh long-stemmed cherries between us. It was a tranquil, typical—and yes, perhaps somewhat sad scene: our dueling MacBook Pros whirring away on…
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