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3 Things About Resurrection You Don’t Want to Miss…But If You’re Like Me, You Did — June 5, 2018

Spirits Aren’t More Important Than Bodies, But This Is How We Got There — May 29, 2018

10 Questions to See If You’ve Accidentally Become a Christian-Gnostic — May 22, 2018

How to Pray When God Doesn’t Seem To Care — May 15, 2018

2 Things I Never Saw in the Lord’s Prayer: Part 1 — May 8, 2018

3 Reasons I Find It Hard to Get Excited About Heaven — May 1, 2018

4 Dangers to Cutting the Edges off God’s Story — April 24, 2018

Pills or Prayer? — April 12, 2018

Dead Saturday — March 31, 2018

3 Reasons Why Forgiveness is a Good Plan for the Holidays — November 22, 2016

Let’s Fire the Imaginary Critics from our Lives — November 1, 2016

How Nausea Reminds Me that I Still Need God — October 25, 2016

Sometimes I Wish God Had Signed Me Up for the Group Plan — October 18, 2016

Wading through Hurt, Work, and Worship — October 11, 2016

The One Sentence That Changes Everything — October 4, 2016

When Work Makes Me Angry — September 27, 2016

What I’m Tempted to Do When Another Black Man Gets Killed — September 22, 2016

Should Christians Love Across Gender Lines? — September 20, 2016

Confessions of a Sales Associate — September 6, 2016

3 Ways to Unclutter Your Soul — August 30, 2016

A Double Dose of Mom-Guilt — Finding God in Motherhood — August 23, 2016

Thank You, Olympians, for Helping Me Worship God — August 16, 2016

Finding God in the Flavor Lab — August 9, 2016

6 Things I Learned about Myself from Reading Old Journals — August 2, 2016

A Few Words that Changed Me — July 26, 2016

My Confession about Racial Injustice: I’ve Been Part of the Problem — July 19, 2016

18 Ways to Savor Summer — July 12, 2016

A Prayer for the White Church in America — July 9, 2016

The Problem with Tithing — July 5, 2016

Top 10 Summer Reads on Faith and the Other Five Senses — June 28, 2016

5 Things to Know About God If You Want to Change the World — June 21, 2016

Finding God through Travel — June 14, 2016

How Imagination Makes Us Better Christians — June 7, 2016

In Memory of Beth Overacker, and What Lies Beyond — May 18, 2016

Maybe It’s Time for a Rest — April 26, 2016

How to Thrive in the Church When You’re Misunderstood — April 19, 2016

Your Body Is a Gift, No Matter What You See — April 12, 2016

Thrive in Monotony — April 5, 2016

The Anchoress Soars — March 29, 2016

The Jesus I’d Rather Not Look At — March 22, 2016

I Don’t Mind Confessing Sins—As Long As They Aren’t Mine — March 15, 2016

The Waiting Room — March 1, 2016

The Confusing Part of Art — February 23, 2016

The Christian Virtue of Inadequacy — February 16, 2016

Theology at the Table: Chef Andrew Powers — February 9, 2016

Invest in the Moment: Another Lesson Christians Can Learn from the Culinary Arts — February 2, 2016

What Christians Can Learn from the Culinary Arts – #2: Celebrate Diversity — January 26, 2016

What Christians Can Learn from the Culinary Arts – #1: Beauty Matters — January 19, 2016

Food Is Not the Enemy — January 12, 2016

Another Year of Resolutions–Maybe We Don’t Need More Self-Control — January 5, 2016

The Sacrament of Writing — December 29, 2015

Rediscovering Christmas — December 22, 2015

Field Guide to Singleness: Survival Tip #1 — December 15, 2015

The St. John’s Bible: Theology & Art Can Play Nice After All — December 8, 2015

Why We Need Advent — December 1, 2015

The Space to Love You — November 24, 2015

FREE Advent Meditations — November 17, 2015

Stealing Psalm 82 for Paris — November 14, 2015

How to Avoid the Unhelpful Question — November 10, 2015

Imagining Our Way Toward God — November 3, 2015

Just Because It Deserves a Blog All Its Own… — October 27, 2015

When Has God Ever Done Anything For Us? — October 20, 2015

Awkward Singles Anonymous — October 13, 2015

Jimmy’s–The Italian Stallion of Food Stores — October 6, 2015

So We Say That We’re Christians, But What Do We Smell Like? — September 29, 2015

Grand Central Station — September 22, 2015

7 Awesome Ideas for Connecting Faith to Your Other Five Senses — September 15, 2015

Out of the Chaos (and into the Mist) — September 8, 2015

A Few Perks to Not Having Kids — September 1, 2015

The Other Half of The Story — August 25, 2015

5 Things Single People Need from the Church — August 18, 2015

7 Ways to Worship God through Your Work — August 11, 2015

How Should We Love Broken People–with Grace or Truth? — August 4, 2015

How to Navigate Your Sex Drive & Stay Celibate — July 28, 2015

3 Reason Why To Ask For Help More Often — July 21, 2015

7 Ways to Love People Better — July 14, 2015

Share the Good Life, But Maybe Not the Infomercial — July 7, 2015

Finding God in the Beautiful — July 2, 2015

Can America and Christianity Still Be Friends? — June 26, 2015

Get A Refund on Your Membership to The Guilt Club — June 23, 2015

How to Feel Happier in 2 Minutes–Pencil Not Included — June 16, 2015

Can God Use Me? — June 9, 2015

Celibacy Is No Fun — June 2, 2015

3 Ways to Avoid Being A People-Pleaser — May 26, 2015

When I’m Hurting and It Seems Like God’s to Blame — May 19, 2015

(un)Glamorous Adventures in Adulthood — May 12, 2015

How to Rediscover the Lost Art of Honesty — May 5, 2015

How “Doing Devotions” Can Hurt Your Spiritual Life — April 28, 2015

Do Christians Still Care About Beauty? — April 21, 2015

How I Started Hating Mornings Less — April 14, 2015

Confessions of a Taker — April 7, 2015

Four Ways to Cultivate Your Imagination & Why You Should Even Bother — March 31, 2015

Being Honest About Singleness — March 24, 2015

No Demons Here — March 21, 2015

Eugene Oh and The Funniest Story I’ve Ever Heard — March 12, 2015

Controlling My Anxiety with Mason Jars — March 10, 2015

Beauty at the Curb — March 5, 2015

Sensing the Way into Worship — February 24, 2015

Lessons on Singleness from a Kindergarten Teacher — February 2, 2015

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Eternal Afternoons–Memoirs of a Pastor’s Kid on Sunday — January 25, 2015

Maybe Christianity is More like Netflix — January 19, 2015

Thank God for Pad Thai — January 14, 2015

How Dating is Not Like Buying a Car — January 10, 2015

Love Every Minute — January 9, 2015

A Good Day to Indulge the Senses — January 5, 2015

Working for More Than a Paycheck — January 3, 2015

A Good Year to Be Single — December 31, 2014

Christmas: God is on the Move — December 21, 2014

A Long Time Coming — December 18, 2014

Foot Problems, Paperwork, and Prayer — December 16, 2014

Exodus: Gods and Kings…Worth $11.50? — December 14, 2014

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