88 Meals & the Meaning of Friendship

Most of my rituals are practiced in solitude: morning prayer, daily exercise, flossing. My two communal rituals involve food: our family’s evening dinner and the eight-eight meals I’ve shared with the same three women over the past twenty-two years. While I’m hopeful...

Summer Reading: Unexpected, by Trina Pocket

This week’s review: Unexpected, by Trina Pocket. Pocket received a cancer diagnosis when she was 23. And pregnant with her second child. The illness combined with the hellish effects from chemo caused her once vibrant spiritual life to shrivel. Yet in the midst...

What I’m Reading This Summer

This week’s review… Compassion without Compromise, by Adam Barr and Ron Citlau One of THE issues of our day is how we as a culture will navigate the fierce beliefs around gender and sexuality—particularly as they intersect with faith. It’s important...

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