"I hope you celebrate today!" my therapist said as I left the clinic. Minutes before our session, I'd gotten the news that after 6 months of job searching, I'd been offered an internship at InterVarsity Press. (Yay! I love IVP and I'm thrilled.) This moment got me thinking about celebration. As I wrote in this week's What I Love Wednesday, therapy has taught me to savor and celebrate wins, big …
Go Ahead and Weep
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the …
The Somber Season of Lent
This week marks the beginning of Lent.¹ I appreciate how the church calendar embraces all the somber elements of Jesus's life and ours. It doesn't try to deny the realities of sadness, grief, or death, but it places them in a story that acknowledges them even as it provides hope. Hope arises from the places of darkness, because that's when we need it. That's the tension we hold. The somber …
Jesus and the Capitol
I can’t stop thinking about the storming of the Capitol. Of Christian nationalism. How we need Christian leaders and Christians in the pews who reject a love of power and instead do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with God. These Christians do exist. I know many. But I am praying God raises up more, who do not equate the way of Jesus with the right or the left but rather know Scripture and …
To My Fellow White People,
"How would you feel if every time someone who shared your skin color and your history-one that is a history of oppression in this country - was killed, the reaction from the majority class was, 'well, they must have deserved it'?" This is a tweet I read recently and have been thinking about. Mainly because it addresses my own experience. When Mike Brown was killed, I started having conversations …