As a dad of two daughters, I have a lot of feelings about today’s feast day for Mary and Martha of Bethany.
God’s Love Actually
I know that it is the season of Advent, but Christmas is on my heart and mind. It’s hard to avoid, since, in the words of fictional rock-n-roll legend Billy Mack, “Christmas is all around.” Christmas is on tv, in stores, in our email boxes, and of course, we’re inundated with holiday musical classics.
Cruciform Parenting
Being a long distance parent never gets any easier. You live with the constant feeling that something is missing. There is a dull ache you […]
Hearing Jesus
On Grow Christians, I have had the opportunity to share my family’s story and my own journey first through divorce, then to long distance parenting, […]
Laughter, Love, and The Royal Wedding
Everyone was excited about the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, my six year old step-daughter Rose included. Except she was excited in […]
Lent Almost Passed Me By (But God Didn’t)
I was married on January 14th of this year. Lent arrived not long after.
Post-divorce, what is reconciliation? This Lent, how can I be made new?
Pain, time, and distance have created a wedge that may never be overcome. What does that mean for my ministry of reconciliation?
I was finished with marriage, but marriage wasn’t finished with me.
Human beings break their promises. But God doesn’t break promises to us.
This year, Christmas came early (but we were together).
This will be the first Christmas in my life I did not spend with my daughter.
Giving thanks is no small thing. It requires a conversion of heart.
We want to give our children the world! So often what we end up giving them is continued complicity in the world’s model of desire and scarcity. Our faith teaches something better.