God, let's be honest—this year is off the rails. We hardly need remind You. But, Christ, there's so much pain. Pain that has gone unseen, unnoticed, unwept for. So we lift up our prayer for all the forgotten sufferers, The invisible pain, the sorrow too
Anthony Parrott
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The ingenious, radical thing about Jesus' teaching is that at the moment we discover someone to be our enemy, we have simultaneously found someone to love and serve. Whoever we have decided is a "sinner" immediately becomes the person we called to forgive and welcome. The way
Shopping is hard right now. Kids put their hands, mouths, and sometimes tongues on everything. Entering any indoor space feels like reverse scuba diving—instead of keeping track of how much oxygen you have left, you're measuring how many viruses you may have breathed in. I know all
But You Said As parents, Emily and I quickly realized that it's not always the best idea to tell your kids when you have something planned for the future. First of all, kids have little to no concept of time. You can tell them that their birthday is
Biblegateway.com Bible Gateway is usually the first place I go on the internet to start researching a piece of Scripture. They have some of the best and easiest-to-use tools on the internet. You should know that the lion's share of those tools are behind a $40/year
I want to suggest something very tenderly, very humbly as we consider death. We often speak of death as our loved ones "going to a better place." I'm not so sure that that is true. I absolutely think it is true that those who die will
This week marks the 2 year anniversary since the death of my brother David in a car accident. Grief is something that we all face ill-prepared. We do our best to sanitize death, distance ourselves from it, and avoid the emotions related to it. Even the word grief isn'
It seems that each day we discover a new thing to make us angry about partisan-politics. The more partisan we become, the harder it is to see our friends, family, and neighbors in three- (or even two-) dimensional ways. Mask-wearers want to sacrifice the freedom our troops fought for. Anti-maskers