NEWS

Happy Monday and Happy Labor Day, my friends! Today the United States celebrates the 129th Labor Day as an official federal holiday....

Happy Monday, friends! If you sent me an email last week, you know that I’ve been away for a week-long family vacation (which may help to...

Happy Monday, my friends! Have you ever had a job in which rest and sleep seemed hardly an option? I definitely have. For the...

Happy Monday, friends! I was at church recently just in time for our “back to school blessing” over everyone going back to school or...

Happy Monday, friends! My writing process for Monday Moments is usually to spend a few days thinking and observing and then sit down at...

Happy Monday, friends! Today’s Monday Moment begins a series I’m calling “The Gospel is…” At its core, the Gospel is the good news. The...

Happy Monday, my friends! I recently had the opportunity to have coffee with someone from my past. While we weren’t friends then, we grew...

Happy Monday, my friends! I have been fortunate to call many places home over the last 36 years. I lived in Cambridge, OH, the longest...

Happy Monday, friends! The news has been filled with mentions of religious freedom, how it should be applied, and what, if any, limits it...

Happy Monday, friends! Tomorrow, we celebrate the Fourth of July, our Independence Day. History tells us, somewhat incorrectly, that on...

Happy Monday, friends! Recently, my friend and pastor, Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, was preaching on race, racism, and the responsibilities of...

Happy Pride and Happy Juneteenth, friends! Last week I reflected on the first verse of “American Spirits” by Drumming Bird. This week I...

[Content warning: Mention of suicide] Happy Pride, friends! Rarely does a song touch me as deeply as "American Spirits" by Drumming Bird...

Happy Monday, friends, and Happy Pride Month! Pride Month is a fascinating exercise in community dynamics, performative allyship mixed...

Happy Monday, my friends! For the last two weeks we’ve been discussing how we declare that something is “not my problem.” In one sense it...

Happy Monday, my friends! Last week I tried to make the point that it can be healthy to say that something “isn’t my problem” when we...

Happy Monday, friends! Because of the work I do and because my interests are follow a fairly activist bent, I get a ton of emails asking...

Happy Monday, my friends! Some people do vacations really well. They know what they want, what they need, and what they enjoy. They...

Happy Monday, my friends! Just as each family is unique so too is each sibling relationship. When my sister was born—32 years ago today...

Happy Monday, my friends! Following on my theme of drawing inspiration from Christopher Sunami’s Hero for Christ, I’m turning to his...