I grew up in a Pentecostal church. We celebrated Easter, but there wasn’t a significant emphasis on the season of Lent. I have learned more about Lent as my faith has broadened and matured, however, I do remember a most embarrassing moment when I told a Catholic work friend that she had a little something…
Perched on my kitchen barstool, eyes fixed on my laptop screen, I opened a Word document and prepared to write. But social media beckoned, Come see what your friends are doing. Advertisements enticed, Come see what’s on sale. Click bait urged, Stop and read this article. An hour later, my Word doc was still blank….
If you come from a more informal background, or you grew up celebrating Easter only on Sunday with an egg hunt and basket of candy, you might not know that this is Holy Week, which began on Palm Sunday, the celebration of Jesus’ final entry into Jerusalem–his last week of ministry. Today is Holy Thursday,…
Eleven years ago, I moved to New York to work at MSNBC to cover political news. I live close enough to 30 Rockefeller Plaza that I can walk to work. Four years passed in New York, and my career had been moving along. Then, life off camera came at me with an uppercut. My father…
I’m working on reading through the Bible. Front to back, slowly but surely. To be certain, going through it this way has been different, but, this approach also means I am getting to experience God’s Word in ways I never have before. One of my favorite parts of reading the books “in order” is that…
I’m sitting in my dining room this morning as I write this. It might be my favorite room in our house because it’s the only one that stays clean. We recently moved to Korea, and have finally settled into an American-style home. I have decorated and made things as comfortable as I can for the…