God’s Protective Parent Heart in Forgiveness
Or… How Shall We Then Forgive? Part 4 So back to my sofa and my unforgiving self. What are we to make of Jesus’ words, “So also my Heavenly Father…
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…
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.…
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…
Developing a Healthier Posture Toward the Past
Memory is a funny thing. Like photos that yellow or fade with age, memory is not some fixed immutable thing. This is true of our individual memories as well as…