Last February, we spent an entire month talking about singleness and the church – discussing various perspectives, misunderstandings, and possible solutions to the loneliness and isolation that singles can sometimes feel within the church. That series saw more traffic than this blog has ever seen, and four of the posts from the series are still…
The options have been kicking around in my head for a few days now. What will my one word for 2015 be? I hopped on the OneWord365 train a couple of years ago with the word compassion, and while I didn’t blog about it often, it was impactful. Learning to have compassion towards myself that year was…
I had a young friend, a long time ago, who would start her prayers at the end of the day in one of two ways: “Dear God, thank you for a good (great, awesome) day today.” or “God… This was not the best day in the world.” It still makes me laugh a little, the…
In case you are just catching this series, I’d like to take a minute to backtrack a bit, because the past few posts I’ve written lay some important groundwork for this conversation. I started by talking about the distinctions between gossip, slander, and information, and how to discern into which of those categories an article or…
Last week, I started talking about the differences between gossip, slander, and information, particularly in regards to “famous” Christians, and how to determine which category what you’re reading about them might fall into. Then I talked a little bit about the implications of those definitions for the way that we respond when we read something about a “scandal”…
