Faith

I had to laugh when I stopped by my local Target at 8am on Halloween morning to pick up more candy, and a zealous worker was already removing the candy and replacing it with boxes of Christmas [...]

I'm just going to come right out and say it: applying the Bible to our lives is overrated. When we apply it to Jesus instead, we unlock unexpected insights that prove to be more valuable than [...]

My dad has always been a great storyteller. Though he was silly at times when he told them (similar to the way Jesus taught his disciples), my dad taught me a lot about the world and about faith [...]

Nothing says summer to me like the smell of campfire, roasting marshmallows for s'mores, and telling stories. Whether you’re in the back yard or deep in the woods with the stars overhead and [...]

Help your family focus on hope, peace, joy, and love this Advent season! These simple, super-doable Advent activities will brighten your families' Christmas celebration and help you create merry, [...]

One day when my kids were small we passed by a McDonald’s after a day at the beach. I thought it would be fun to spontaneously treat them to ice cream cones. I can still recall their looks of [...]

Our relationship with our parents as we grew up created countless defining moments. That's a given. We kind of realize that even as kids. What we often don't brace ourselves for is how the [...]

A few years ago, Marie Kondo captivated me with The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. Filled with adventure, decluttering, and searches for what “sparks joy,” her message of simplifying [...]

A few days ago I met up with a friend for coffee. We talked about our families, work, school, and everything else. Then our conversation turned to faith and the seasons in life when it seems like [...]

All of our lives orbit around something. For Christians, it's easy to say that our lives orbit around Jesus. But the truth is that we have a lot of things competing to be our center: Family [...]