Recent Writing
The Calling of Pain
For more than ten years I’ve worked with young adults – as a Sunday School teacher, as a pastor and as a retreat leader invited to help them make connections between faith and service. Although the technology that houses their screens has changed plenty, one thing that hasn’t is the way these conversations always turn to vocation. Whether we are talking beneath a steeple, in a circle around a campfire or over a cup of
Finding Home: Beauty and Wisdom in Louise Penny’s Three Pines
At or near the top of the list of things saving my life these days is Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache Series. I don’t know how I discovered the books – I suspect it came as recommended reading from Sarah Bessey’s blog. But I do know this, I have since become an evangelist for all things Three Pines. These are books to be read and books to be savored. There are thirteen books in this series,
Her Fault
I left town earlier this week to attend a writer’s conference in North Carolina. When I called home to catch up on the day’s events in Knoxville, my wife shared a telling story from daycare. Our daughter had recently graduated into the next age group at school, leaving behind some of her friends. On this particular day one of her former partners in crime had graduated to the new class – a reunion accompanied by
