My Wake Tech Community College students are obsessed with Friends. Not their real-life buddies, but the sitcom, whose 236 episodes dominated American TV from 1994 to 2004. Though Friends displays the kind of homogeneity younger millennials and Generation Z rail against—it’s an all-white, heterosexual, middle-class, …
I was certain we’d hate each other. Many writers experience a push-pull of introversion and ego, of wanting to “see” the world in order to convey it, and longing to convey to the reader what they see. Some of us are envious when the other …
Here is it, y’all: the cover for my second book, For Sabbath’s Sake: Embracing Your Need for Rest, Worship, and Community (Upper Room Books). For Sabbath’s Sake will be released October 2017. The first draft is complete, and you can preview FREE sabbath content this month at My Quiet …
One of my 2015 resolutions was to become more mindful. Not lotus-sitting, 24-7 monastic mindful, but a little less wound up and a lot more present. I’ve needed that resolution this year, as the past 12 months have brought a mix of busyness, joy, wonder, …
When’s the last time you had a Pentecost moment? Pentecost is a high holy day when Christians read and remember Acts 2, a story about the work of the Holy Spirit bringing together people who (seemingly) had the deepest divides. The Chin people (refugees from …