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  “[Grieving] requires a lot of love, and love is a harsh comforter, because only love makes genuine loss possible. You can’t lose what you never loved.” Richard Lischer, Stations of the Heart “There is a hole in the world now. A center like no other of memory and hope and knowledge and affection which...

We pierced the veneer of outside things. We suffered…and had grown bigger in the bigness of the whole. We had seen God in all his splendours, heard the text that nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man. – Sir Ernest Shackleton   The arrow flew intuitively, almost of its own volition. For...

I am a yoga junkie. There.   I said it. Picture me at my first class—in a sea of women in black, stretchy pants. I had never been more uncomfortable in my life. It took years of Cherie gently prodding for me to see a counselor. And it had taken her far longer to bring...

The following is a reflection I wrote after ongoing ventures in recent years through the Message paraphrase of Matthew 21:12-18, the passage commonly referred to as “The Clearing of the Temple.” My hope is that it might help us thirsty ones peel back the glaze of over-familiarity and experience the scene afresh, as we find ourselves...

“And his strength left him.” Judges 16:9 The seizure was shocking enough. My youngest brother, known by us all as Lucky Lance, was the luckiest one of us all, at least up until then. He had the great hair while the rest of us brothers went prematurely bald; he had the beautiful wife, the six-figure...

In this season of giving, there may be no more meaningful gift that you can give than the gift of yourself.   Wholehearted. Present.  Alive. Let’s face it: the world is chaos.  One holiday trip through Walmart on Black Friday will score you a TV for 80 percent off, a black eye, and an even...