Silver Linings in Dark Financial Clouds: Discovering Spiritual Gold in the...
A mother reflects on the opportunities for moral growth, generosity, and compassion presented by our current economic crisis.
View ArticlePrays Best while Moving
I prayed better when the children were small, when we spread out the crayons in the center of the dining table and crafted leaf rubbings. When we modeled shapes from colored beeswax, and I’d find...
View ArticleHow Does a Sacrificial Moral Ethic (#losing) Help Parents Navigate Youth...
Along with another dad, Ed coached the soccer team his five-year-old son, Justin, played on through the town’s parks and recreation department.1 The team practiced Tuesday nights at six o’clock and...
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Silver Linings in Dark Financial Clouds: Discovering Spiritual Gold in the...
Like the worst of rubber-neckers passing a twenty-car pileup on the interstate, I have watched our nation’s recent economic turmoil with a strange mixture of sorrow, fear, and (here comes the strange...
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Silver Linings in Dark Financial Clouds: Discovering Spiritual Gold in the...
Like the worst of rubber-neckers passing a twenty-car pileup on the interstate, I have watched our nation’s recent economic turmoil with a strange mixture of sorrow, fear, and (here comes the strange...
View ArticlePrays Best while Moving
I prayed better when the children were small, when we spread out the crayons in the center of the dining table and crafted leaf rubbings. When we modeled shapes from colored beeswax, and I’d find...
View ArticleHow Does a Sacrificial Moral Ethic (#losing) Help Parents Navigate Youth...
Along with another dad, Ed coached the soccer team his five-year-old son, Justin, played on through the town’s parks and recreation department.1 The team practiced Tuesday nights at six o’clock and...
View ArticleWaking Up with You: Notes to My Second Son
October You arrived, as babies do, in a rush of fluid and blood. The nurses responded, as they do, with a rush of skillful movement. The doctor lifted your reddened body and placed you on your mother’s...
View ArticleFatherly Rage
It feels stupid to say I lost my cool because of a throw pillow, but as any parent knows, it’s the accumulation of little things that can send you over the edge. I was bending to shove a sneaker onto...
View ArticleCultural Infusion
One Sunday morning at my Evangelical Covenant church, the tech team projects a video interview with an Iranian woman who came to Boston for an education and ended up finding Jesus. She encourages us...
View ArticleSurvival Mode
During the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, at the end of long days juggling work and caring for two homebound kids, when our boys were finally asleep, the kitchen cleaned, and the work problems...
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