Another great book review came in today, and I want to thank blogger Tim Hoiland for writing it. I’ve never met him in person, but our lives just keep crossing paths, and we share in common a wrestling with adventure and ordinariness, as I’m sure many of you do, too.
Here’s a piece of the review:
Adam [...]
Nearly a year ago, I finished up an amazing project: a discussion guide to be used by groups wanting to explore the connection between God and justice. The project was sponsored and put together by World Vision’s Action Network (ACT:S), and InterVarsity. Here’s a piece of it’s vision:
Some people sit in church on Sunday and [...]
My husband makes me laugh out loud (so much that I even write out the whole words, not just LOL.) If you’re a new parent, an old parent, a parent-to-be some day, or just a human being, give yourself a laugh here at his blog, Executing Ideas.
Here’s a sample from tips 8 and 9:
Learn to [...]
Yesterday I learned of two separate friends who are dealing with children with serious health problems and/or disabilities.
Heavy stuff. I don’t think anyone asks to have a kid with a disability. Ok, I take that back, there are saintly people who adopt children with disabilities knowing what they’re doing, and they deserve medals of honor [...]
Yesterday was the first day of lent. Maybe last night you got some ashes smeared on your head. Maybe “lent” is a weird, meaningless word to you. Here’s an article I wrote for Relevant on why lent is crazy, and why I love it anyway.
When Ash Wednesday rolls around, some of us get a [...]
Thinking about giving up chocolate, coffee, Facebook, or fried food for lent?
Wondering why Christians bother with this sacrificing deal at lent at all?
How about something more meaningful.
A couple weeks ago I got to fly out to California to be a part of putting together videos introducing something very cool you can take part in this [...]
I’m not much of a mommy-blog reader, but every now and then, one gets me. Right to the heart. This last week I had some blessed conversations with a couple mommy friends who were willing to say right out loud the unspeakable: sometimes parenting is misery. Sometimes we feel like baby slaves, and the best [...]
Here’s a couple more ways to put Jesus at the center of Christmas, especially for those of you with kids (or rather young at heart yourselves).
This cute little book, Truth in the Tinsel at http://truthinthetinsel.com/. Author says:
Does the craziness of the holiday seem to sweep you away? Do you sit there on December 25th and [...]
Here comes the latest article my husband and I wrote in Relevant Magazine. This one’s sort of mini-condensed version of the book we just wrote! We turned in the manuscript yesterday morning. The book will be called This Ordinary Adventure: Settling down without settling. You have to wait until December 2012 to buy it, but [...]
One in eight people in the world today lacks safe drinking water. Imagine if that were spread over everybody’s responsibility, and every eighth day you had to take half a day off work to walk to a mud puddle to scoop up water for your family.
