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We Could Use Some Hope

We Could Use Some Hope

Lots of us are feeling a little shaky these days. Overwhelmed, exhausted, anxious, disoriented. Well no wonder. Just take a look around: There are shootings at elementary schools and at church potlucks. You can’t find baby formula, and you can hardly afford to fill...
Owning Your Freedom

Owning Your Freedom

A few weeks before our wedding, I admitted to Joy that I was terrified. This was not a case of the pre-wedding jitters. Many people worry about whether or not they’re marrying the right person. But something else entirely had me in its grip. I was realizing that I am...
What a Veteran Taught Me About Love

What a Veteran Taught Me About Love

A good friend of mine—we’ll call him Jeff—is a highly decorated combat veteran. Jeff has told me about some of his wartime experiences. Sharing these stories is something he does rarely. And he discusses these things with only a small, trusted circle. Jeff watched...
The Truth that Sets Us Free

The Truth that Sets Us Free

“Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.” This is Richard Rohr’s amplification of Jesus’s famous teaching: the truth will set you free. (Falling Upward, p. 74; John 8:32) What I take Rohr—and more basically Jesus—to be saying is something like...
How to Love Wisely

How to Love Wisely

Joy caught herself nodding off at the wheel. She and Meredith were making the three-and-half-hour drive back home from New Orleans. On the night before, they had taken in a performance of “Rent.” Lack of sleep and the onset of a cold had left Joy feeling wrung out. So...