A tribute to the fall of a baseball team and a season.
A collection of thoughts gathered during time spent in Africa.
On surrendering control and remembering how to play in a season of inevitable change.
Considering hope and fear twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
On a tradition that binds what's past, even as it teaches for the future.
Examining the notion of popular culture in a segregated society.
An interview with Nicole Carlin about her family's work in Haiti.
How mundane details met audacious hope, in the round, on December 31, 2000.
Thoughts on charity and social justice.
On giving politicians permission to tell the truth.
Learning to be at peace in all circumstances from a matriarch's example.
On making space for transition in our New Year's resolutions.
For better and for worse, some things never change.
A reflection on the one-year anniversary of a major injury.
A reflection on practicing a domestic liturgy.
Confessions of a recent convert to the e-reader.
On the loss of love letters in a technological age.
An impending job change prompts questions about future expectations.
What's nature, what's nurture and what's the product of a generation?
Learning to see and dismantle global injustice.
Remembering the small town grocery store and lamenting its loss.
Saving the local library from consolidation...and extinction.
A report from Occupy Chicago.
Acknowledging the fairy tale running under and through our daily lives.
Asking hard questions and embracing complex answers in community.
A pastor’s perspective on the 80% of churches that are dying in the U.S.
A challenging year shifts beliefs in some important ways.
A retrospective of surprising life changes.
Taking a friend’s advice to give time for personal lament.
On making changes to live closer to our place on a smaller version of “enough.”