A friend passed along a story the other day about schools closing for days or even weeks to prevent teachers from burning out and quitting. Of course, this set off a firestorm with parents, who scrambled to figure out what to do with their kids at the last minute while experiencing their own burnout. Burnout… Continue reading Burnout
I want to tell you a story. Stories are how we see the unseen. Truth is something that is written so deeply in our hearts that we have to carve away chunks of ourselves to find it. It is something that we often uncover much more effectively through living and storytelling than through logic or… Continue reading Love Never Fails: Part 1
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts about two kinds of love. (If you go back to read the other posts, start from the bottom. They are in reverse order.) This is a process blog. In this case, that means I’m writing about constrained love in an effort to write my own way… Continue reading A Tale of Two Loves (Part 5): A Love that Breaks
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts about two kinds of love. (If you go back to read the other posts, start from the bottom. They are in reverse order.) This is a process blog. In this case, that means I’m writing about constrained love in an effort to write my own… Continue reading A Tale of Two Loves (Part 4): The Ghost in the Gap
This is the second in a series of blog posts about two kinds of love. I’m currently writing about the first kind, constrained love. (If you go back to read the other posts, start from the bottom. They are in reverse order.) This is a process blog. In this case, that means I’m writing about… Continue reading A Tale of Two Loves (Part 2): Love in the Age of Fear
I started blogging regularly back in January of this year because I was hot under the collar about how we in the church approach sex. (Not THAT kind of hot under the collar. Or not ONLY that kind. Yeesh.) As I’ve wandered my way blindly stumbling to the unnamed core of what really unsettled me,… Continue reading A Tale of Two Loves (Part 1): Constrained Love