Life is not god.
In 2009, Washington State ratified the Death with Dignity Act, legalizing physician-assisted suicide. “This act allows terminally ill adults seeking to end their life to request lethal doses of medication
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The gift of intimacy
I am left-handed. When I travel to India, that can be a bit of a challenge. In many middle-eastern countries, the left hand is used for hygiene; using it for
“In the evening I went very unwillingly to Charge Conference …”
This week, I felt my heart strangely warmed. On Tuesday evening, I went (somewhat) unwillingly to Charge Conference. I confess to having lost patience with some of these denominational forms.
Church is a verb.
The tabernacle as we find it in Exodus was meant to be a sign of God’s presence among the people and a signal tower for his plan. Once the tabernacle
Post Traumatic Church Disorder and the Hope of Glory
If you have suffered from PTCD you know it. I heard someone use the phrase last week and it immediately resonated: Post-traumatic Church Disorder. Bad spirituality can make us spiritually
Pigs don’t fly.
A passenger on a recent U.S. Airways flight boarded a plane carrying what other passengers are saying resembled a duffel bag thrown over her shoulder. Her assigned seat was next
Three Secrets of a Strong Marriage
In my last post, I mentioned three things Steve and I have done intentionally that have had a positive impact on our twenty-nine-year marriage. The first one is that we
Listening (and responding) to mental Illness
Some of the people I love most deal daily with depression, or the effects of medicating it. Others deal with seasonal affective disorder, the kind of depression that gets worse
The Parable of the Church Planter (or, “Why I’ve Been Angry With God”)
There’s an old story about a man who is asked by God to push against a large rock. God tells him this is important work, this rock-pushing. He asks the
Grow up.
” … speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ …” – Ephesians 4:15 This line in
A very hopeful New Room
This week, I’ve been attending and being renewed at the New Room Conference, hosted by Seedbed (the publishing house of Asbury Seminary). It has been a great gift to hear
Habit #7: Joyful people know who (and whose) they are.
My daughter looks just like me, a fact that just plain tickles me. People have always remarked about our resemblance. It seems that the older she gets the more obvious
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