Performance

The Voice of Belovedness and Freedom

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with your head held high” (Leviticus 26:13). As a young child, my Sunday school teacher

Gentle and Right

“Why do you want to do this now?” my business partner asked. “it’s not the right time.” I sulked for a moment, then retaliated. “I’ve been doing most of the work all on my own for the past month. What does it matter to you when we decide to do

Teamwork According to Ants

Go to the ant, you sluggard;  consider its ways and be wise!  It has no commander,  no overseer or ruler,  yet it stores its provisions in summer  and gathers its food at harvest.  Proverbs 6:6-8  A friend and I were talking about working with others. I wasn’t at all surprised

Embodied Spirituality: Giving Up Prayer for Lent

Back in college, I often lay awake late into the night, mentally scrolling through my ever-increasing prayer list. Sometimes I would drift into sleep, only to jerk awake at two a.m., horrified to realize I had missed praying for the last few people.

Does Fit = Faithful?

Revealing a false equation that results in disordered thinking, eating, and emotional attachments as we swap the balanced, kind care of our God-given bodies for the pursuit of cultural constructs of beauty and fitness.

Eight Hours of Sleep

A colonel I knew said that when he was deployed to Afghanistan as a battalion commander, he made sure to get the best sleep of anyone in his unit. That seemed odd—shouldn’t he have worked longer and harder, sacrificing his rest for the sake of his soldiers? But he had

A Megadose of Rhythm

“The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.” Oswald Chambers

Last week we got news we didn’t want, then a few days later came another challenge we’d prefer not to deal with. Oh, life—ours and yours, no doubt! A friend commented to us, “Chaos is the new normal.” We couldn’t agree more!