5 Things Beekeeping Taught Me about God
I want you to meet my new beekeeping friend, Lissa Magnuson. She spent years apprenticing for a beekeeper named, Gary (Different from the Gary in the Scouting The Divine Book and Bible study we’re diving into this summer!). She soon started her own farmer’s market...
How Does A Beehive Reveal the Kingdom of God?
I asked my sweet friend, the Rev. H. Elizabeth Back, an Episcopal priest and beekeeper to share what she’s discovered God through her beehive. I hope her words will be as much of a blessing to you as they are me: Jesus first made himself known to me when I was four...
Why The Season You’re In Is So Complicated
People often use the word “season” to describe their lives. I’m in a . . . good season hard season painful season I’m in a . . . season of change season of new growth season of waiting season of loss season of blessing season of dealing with my junk season of healing...
Did Jesus Really Call You To Live a Better Story?
Well-told stories capture the imagination, inspire the soul, awaken the spirit. Well-crafted stories can also cast a dark shadow, embed prejudices, invoke enmity. Like dynamite, a well-devised story requires careful handling, great attention to detail, accurate...
Win More than $75 in Tasty Prizes Today—Celebrate the Kickoff of Our Summer Bible Study
It’s not too late to join the kick off the Scouting the Divine online summer Bible study (Lifeway). We kicked off on Monday, June 15th with the first session and diving into the meaning behind the more than 700 references to sheep, shepherding, and flocks throughout...
What does “God Is Our Shepherd” Really Mean?
On June 15, we launched the online summer Bible study, Scouting the Divine: My Search for God in Wine, Wool, and Wild Honey. I spent months with shepherds, farmers, beekeepers, and vintners in order to understand the agrarian themes of Scripture. -Why is the Promised...
What Keeps You Up at Night?
I’m thrilled you’re back and joining us as we are Scouting the Divine in this summer online Bible study. This week, we’re spending more time with Lynne, the shepherdess, in order to understand the hundreds of sheep, shepherd, and flock references throughout the Bible....
9 Don’t Miss Details from Pixar’s Inside Out
Yesterday I shared how Inside Out Busts Through 5 Myths of Your Emotions: Joy, Anger, Sadness, Sorrow, Disgust. The movie is still dancing in my mind. I couldn’t help but watch Inside Out through the lenses of all I’ve learned through researching joy and happiness for...
Pixar’s Inside Out Busts Through 5 Myths of Your Emotions: Joy, Anger, Sadness, Sorrow, Disgust
I was so excited about the release of Inside Out, I dressed up as Joy for Denver Comic Con weeks ago. Nobody knew who I was. I didn’t mind. After all, I was Joy. Five years in the making, Inside Out unfolds in the mind of an 11-year-old Riley, whose faces a crisis...
One of the Biggest Lies the Church Has Taught You
Throughout Scripture, Jesus uses natural wonders to explain supernatural truths. From fruitless figs and buzzing bees to choking weeds and lost sheep, it’s no secret that the Bible is steeped in an agrarian culture. Now I never used to think about sheep very much. Or...
