Earlier this week I was confronted with a concept I had never considered before: what if the story of the rich young man (Matthew 19:16-30, Mark 10:17-31, Luke 18:18-30) applied in its most radical form to us all? What if God’s perfect will for all of us is to completely detach ourselves and...
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I’m a voracious consumer of podcasts. Good podcasters can do with their voices what is difficult to do even in face-to-face conversation: make the listeners feel special, intelligent and on this journey of discovery right alongside them – not behind them.    My favorite weekly...
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One month ago, if someone had asked me if I’d changed in the past year, I would have said no. I didn’t think I had definitively changed, but I was wrong. In the past month, several specific instances made me realize my answer must be the opposite, for I have changed entirely. After care...
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Summer can be a time of nonstop adventures – family vacations, working a summer job, or helping out with bible school at your church or a making mission trip. For others, summertime can be complete boredom or anxious anticipation. You might find yourself with nothing to do but simply wait for...
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Since Mission Evansville and the Source Summit follow-up, I have thought a lot about the community of the Church. After these diocesan events, I developed more of an awareness that the wonderful people I met truly motivated me to improve myself, and the support we continue to offer each other is in...
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A great blessing of my husband is that I can bounce column ideas off him, and he gives me good feedback. However, sometimes that means that he encourages me to change or better process my topic. That happened this month, and I found myself somewhat reluctantly but humbly in search of a new topic. A...
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Cynicism sucks the joy out of every moment in life. It seems an unwritten rule that to be respectable or intelligent, one must first possess the imperious glance of a skeptic. People bond over their complaints and derision for minor inconveniences; and most heartbreakingly, they refuse even to see...
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I’m currently in a period of transition. It’s the summer before I start law school, and most of my friends and loved ones now live or will soon live in different cities. This time is wrought with a sometimes-chaotic blend of excitement, faith, uncertainty and a hearty dose of anxiety.&#...
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Too much.             My friends often kindly accuse me of being too enthusiastic about ballroom dancing and the sky. Another friend once told me long drives are good for “singing too loud and thinking too deep,” and I began to cont...
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As a culture, we sometimes consider abstract notions worthless. Though we value love, as seen in all of literature and art, we do not grasp the fullness of its power in our lives. Love is the material of existence, the essence of things concrete. Love is strong. In reading Song of Songs, I found ve...
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