A reader told me this week that “Your politics are a bit too loud right now. Wish we could stay focused on shared faith.”

In case you need a response when people tell you to be quiet or stay in your lane (especially nice Christian folks), I thought I’d share my response so you could tuck it in your back pocket.

“I'm glad the internet is vast and wide so that you can find other places to nurture you. It's crystal clear to me that right now is a time of widespread injustice that calls for people of…

An exquisite poem for a hard day. One that got me through many hard days.

The Thing Is

to love life, to love it even

when you have no stomach for it

and everything you’ve held dear

crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,

“In families, we are constantly called to rearrange our lives around the ones who need the most help: a newborn baby, a sick child, a broken leg, a stomach flu, a broken heart, a job loss, a new diagnosis, or a mental health crisis. But the school of love that is family life is not simply meant to produce a ‘finished product’ especially …