Turned off by the gas pump gospel
FOR ME, THERE’S a point where the appealing quiet confidence of faith becomes repellent loud certainty. Like the guy who sprang out at me between the…
Getting re-signed in the face of disappointment
Given that parents can find themselves in trouble with the authorities these days for letting their kids walk home alone from the neighborhood park, it’s unlikely…
When getting nowhere fast is a reminder
To those who feel like they have been abandoned in the middle of a great adventure: you’re in good company. If everything was going well and…
When to stop asking questions
When people ask me what are the gifts of a Christian journalist, I tell them sanctified nosiness and redeemed skepticism. While most everyone else is going…
Parking therapy
Were I ever to open a life-coaching practice, the first question I would ask of new clients would not be where they feel they are stuck…
Putting some ‘thankfuel’ in my tank
I prefer the simpler Milne-Pooh Personality Type assessment over the Myers-Briggs, because it’s based on one letter instead of four. I come out as an E…
Shuffling from faithless to faithlets
The first time I exercised after a few years of sedentary life wasn’t pretty. The rather large gap between what I envisaged (hurdling!) and what I…
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