The Top 4 Reasons I Adore Spring
Today is officially the first day of spring. (Insert Woop! Woop! Sound) After a snowy winter, I welcome this new season with open arms. I think I have a billion or so reasons I love spring, but here are four that come to mind: 1. Play. Play. Play. The longer sunny...
Giving Up Contempt for Lent: When Contempt Rises Again
I recently learned of a leader of an organization who fell in disgrace. I should have felt compassion, but all I felt was contempt. I knew too much. I'd heard one too many stories of the misappropriation of funds and the over-reporting of the non-profit's impact....
5 Ways to Go Green This St. Patrick’s Day
Gaelic music. Leprechaun posters. Pots of glimmering gold. Everyone wants to be Irish around St. Patrick's Day. If you desire to cave into your inner longings of being Irish--look no further. Here are 5 ways you can Go Green and be Irish for a day: 1. Decorate. Pitch...
Blind to Beauty
For those of you traveling with me through the Gospel of John for Lent, John 9 explores the issue of physical and spiritual blindness in a beautiful and profound way. Jesus sees a man who has been blind from birth. The challenges this man faced physically were only...
Giving Up Contempt For Lent
As Lent continues, and I’m determined to give up contempt for six weeks, I’m beginning to see more clearly the harm contempt does in my life. Contempt is like a wide wedge that slips in my life and my relationships—separating me from God and others whenever I allow it...
What You Don’t Know About Daylight Savings
I started to wonder this week: Where did this practice of "spring forward, fall back" come from? National Geographic says the idea of using sunlight more effectively came from Benjamin Franklin. He was shocked that, when visiting France and awakening in the early...
Giveaway: Free Bible Study DVD Sampler with Margaret Feinberg
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A Purim of the Heart
At first I was too shocked to do anything. The salesclerk continued to mutter four-letter obscenities underneath her breath as she scanned my groceries. Her scowl furrowed further as she continued to ring up my supplies and snap at the assistant helping to bag. I...
The Beauty of Water: Cleaning, Healing, Renewing
Twelve billion light years away a dense cloud of molecules crumpled, exploding into a new star. The famous byproduct of this new birth? Water. Without water, human cells cannot function. Without water, plants cannot complete photosynthesis, vegetation's way of drawing...
As Seen on @CNN: New TV series ‘GCB’ portrays Christians as caricatures
Originally dubbed "Good Christian Bitches" after the book by Kim Gatlin, a television series that debuted on ABC on Sunday night had its name changed to "Good Christian Belles" before being shortened to "GCB." Whatever meaning you assign to those three letters, the...
