Category: Spirituality

In the last post on this Blog, Dr. Christine Jones discussed the differences between performed faith and lived faith. You can read it here. Her words got me

Reflections on performed faith with Kanye, George Orwell, and Cameron Dezen Hammon’s This is my Body. I’ve been thinking lately about an old joke you sometimes hear tossed

Dairmad MacCulloch, writer of the impressive history Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, has also written a summary of the concept of silence throughout the Christian tradition. MacCulloch’s

It was a warm Sunday in July when I got to wear a swimsuit to church, a Little Mermaid one, in fact. My mother fussed over my hair

We’re all probably familiar with the benefits of mindfulness practices such as Tai Chi, meditation, and contemplative prayer, which is an ancient Christian mindfulness tradition. But when I

Puddles don’t form when I water the rose bushes. The stream runs straight down. I take a walk, stepping over cracks, some of them as wide as my

I missed the turn. Night falls faster than it did a month ago, quicker than it did last week—I didn’t see Farm to Market Road 3356 when I

For a recent academic project, I set out to analyze the top twenty-five worship songs according to CCLI.  My findings about the music were what you might suspect

As I went through a faith deconstruction/reconstruction (to use the in-vogue terms), I came across a model that helped me understand where I had been and where I

In the hectic whirlwind of August -- for so many with a new school year -- the angst and anger of a world where ordinary life has become