Friday Florilegium
Cup of tea and book in hand on a snowy Iowa morning, I’m celebrating the first deeply quiet day after months filled with moving and teaching and finishing...
Cup of tea and book in hand on a snowy Iowa morning, I’m celebrating the first deeply quiet day after months filled with moving and teaching and finishing...
Hungry and tired, she waited for the campus bus, the visible world reduced to the lamp light’s reach. The chill made her burrow deeper into her jacket, th...
For many followers of Jesus, today is the Feast of Mary. Rarely do I find stories that do her justice, but this one, a meditation on Jesus gone missing b...
Recently, I had the privilege of speaking at the Bethany Presbyterian Church’s Women’s Retreat on spiritual practices, the brain, and living in the ...
Do not be discouraged at your faults; bear with yourself in correcting them, as you would with your neighbor. Lay aside this ardor of mind, which exhaust...
I won’t mince any words. The past six weeks have run the gamut from delightful to downright awful. In early December, I woke up with heart-pounding, stoma...
Hungry and tired, she waited for the campus bus, the visible world reduced to the lamp light’s reach. The chill made her burrow deeper into her jacket, th...
Over the past month of considering contemplative living, I’ve invited you to reflect on your activities and start to make cause and effect connections. I ...
When I think how close I came to not taking my apartment, I marvel at God’s patient persistence and the grace gift of faith. I’ve moved nearly every...