Learning Forgiveness at Different Speeds
Or… How Shall We Then Forgive? Part 3 I’ve been reflecting more on my last post: the slow pace of relaxing my death grip on unforgiveness. If some of you…
My Encounter with the Tale of the Two Debtors
Or… How Shall We Then Forgive? Part 2 Maybe you’ve had this experience before: you’re consuming familiar content (a book, movie, soundtrack), and it suddenly hits you in a completely…
How Shall We Then Forgive? Part 1
Or… In Which I Start Writing About Forgiveness Forgiveness is simultaneously one of the most breathtaking and also gut-wrenching concepts I have found in the Bible. I have discovered myself…
Still Time To Care, A Review
I love reading history. Still Time to Care is a groundbreaking look at the history of the white Evangelical movement’s response to gay people, and an invitation to shift from…
Pandemic Losses and Finds
I’ve hit mental walls multiple times during this pandemic. Maybe you have too. The pandemic has required numerous and ever changing adaptations from us, which is exhausting. There has been…
Evaluating our Automatic Thoughts
As I participate in current in person and on-line conversations, I hear confusion about the concept of racial bias. Many seem to think that if my conscious belief is that…
You Can’t Refrigerate Righteousness
I sat in a near empty classroom in our church basement with a handful of friends over a decade ago. Most people were elsewhere, still getting their Sunday morning coffee.…
Language Control
I’ve wanted to learn sign language for a while now, and recently began a course through Stack Social. Before teaching signs, the instructor provided a brief history of American Sign…
God as our Secure Base
Attachment has been a subject of growing interest in the mental health field for some time. It is the relational bond that starts in infancy between a child and caregiver.…
Scripture Reading While Depressed
Some of the ideas I come up with are, let’s say… peculiar. Like the time I was clinically depressed and decided it would be a great time to read the…