When I was in high school—long, long ago—I had a youth pastor who warned us that the spiritual life wouldn’t always be easy. Sometimes we wo... Read More ...
I zoomed out on Google Maps, pointing to the green mountain ranges as my children stared, wide-eyed. Click again…again…and again. I had no i... Read More ...
Have you ever heard the saying, “Comparison is the devil’s poison”? I’ve found it to be true. If I judge myself better than the other, I run... Read More ...
When I walked out of the theater after seeing Avengers: Infinity War, my mind was reeling from the final scenes of the movie (fair warning: ... Read More ...
One day, I was reading through an article from the very talented Meg Hunter-Kilmer about a whole family-clan of saints. The writing is Meg’s... Read More ...
Analog is dead. Digital is the future.
Or so we were told, David Sax explains in The Revenge of Analog (2016). I put my Canon Rebel DSR (... Read More ...
“Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.” – Jeremiah 29:12
Last Easter I set my hair on fire in churc... Read More ...
Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from the upcoming book It's Ok to Start with You by Mind & Spirit contributor Julia Hogan. Pu... Read More ...
A few years ago I had, unbeknownst to me, severe anxiety. I discovered that a good friend of mine was struggling with an eating disorder and... Read More ...
A Review of The Character Gap: How Good Are We? by Christian B. Miller (Oxford University Press, 2018, 276pp)
The main thesis of this boo... Read More ...
An Imaginary Conversation About Mindfulness
Editor's Note: The events depicted below are fictitious. Direct quotes are represented in itali... Read More ...
Day to day life is the perfect opportunity for self-growth.
We tend to measure our lives in terms of milestone events such as graduation,... Read More ...
“It seems like during Lent, it’s one thing after another,” she said we waited for our daughters to finish their ballet class.
“Yeah…” I m... Read More ...
Choice – it’s an American value that’s wrapped up in our idea of freedom. Isn’t that what our forefathers fought for? Freedom of speech, rel... Read More ...
Almost a year after my first-ever actual heartbreak in life, I was shocked one day to realize that I had made almost no progress in processi... Read More ...
Prayer is time spent on and in our relationship with God. It can be conversation, contemplation, meditation, or activities offered to this e... Read More ...
