I love January. It’s planning a beautiful multi-course meal… then writing your grocery list. It’s a buffet laid out of good things, but how do I begin to eat it all?

My dear Tempter-in-Training, instead of the inconvenient work of renewal, let us help them refine their practice of ordinary living.

A little digital scrapbooking from 2024.

Choosing a thoughtful gift for your theatre person shouldn’t give you stage fright! With options that celebrate the art form and enhance appreciation for the stage, your gift is sure to get a standing ovation!

Courageousness is built up in the endurance of everyday trials. Small acts of faithfulness add up to a fortified strength. Through courage, we become more alive, more useful, and more human.

Our generation is distracted. We default to amusement, unaccustomed to the quiet practice of thinking carefully or thoroughly. This posture of amusement impacts our ability to create and to worship.

In art, value informs our style. When we are firm in our values it allows for greater freedom of expression. If we emphasize methods over principles, we look for prescriptive style. Without an actionable understanding of principles, artists rely on societal permission over authentic creativity.

The body is a strange thing. It is both something we have and something we are. In some ways we put it in submission and in others, we work alongside it. July is Juvenile Arthritis Awareness month. 2024 marks my 25th year since being diagnosed. Here are some reflections on God’s grace.

Summer Reading? Earn that personal pan pizza: Donald Miller, Julia Cameron, Jean Rhys — oh my! Plus plays involving heat as a catalysis.