The Nonreligious Christian

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At times I've wondered why the Psalmist wrote that Got puts all our tears in a bottle (Psalm 56:8). I thought about it again rece...

Image from www.joesorrenart.com Do you struggle with self-doubt? Does it take you by surprise when someone praises your work? And do...

I just finished Elaine Miller's book,  We All Married Idiots , and discovered that, sure enough, she's right. David Bogdan ...

Are you one of those who doesn't have it all together? And do you have people in your life who seem to accentuate the fact when ...

Image from Musicradar.com The other night I was waiting for dinner to finish cooking and realized I had fifteen unspoken-for minutes t...

I have often speculated about what kind of person I'd be had I not been raised in a Christian home. Here's what I'm pretty ...

Image from npr.org I've spent a lot of time pondering why many of us are too busy. I devoted two chapters in my book listing the ...

Image from Smithsonianmag.com Last summer I took a homeless man into my home for an overnight stay. His stench followed him up the ...

Image from www.sharedhope.org "Front door opening," announced the electronic voice as I entered the kitchen where *Shayla w...

photo credit: Gizmodo Shoes I tossed and turned for a while in bed last night, thinking about what a misfit I am. How I don’t seem ...

                                     I first discovered Joan Ball through a Facebook comment she made on someone's post that rea...

Recently a friend was describing to me one of her saddest childhood memories. Every day she’d come home from school to an empty h...

I know the best thing to do for the families in Connecticut right now is to sit in silence and mourn their losses with them, like Job...

I stayed in bed for a long time this morning, feeling the need for comforting hugs from people who share my sentiments. I felt alone,...

Thanks, Dr. Leman, but sometimes I don't feel I can wait until Friday   to put an end to the cold distance and eye-rolling of a fif...

Some time ago a woman told me she’d decided to leave her church (for what seemed to me a silly reason). “Only three people had the gum...

I never signed up, exactly, to become an author and to plant a church at the same time, all the while mothering four kids and try...

Cornell Street I took this photo on a recent road trip through Cleveland. I wanted to capture the architectural beauty of this c...

Have you ever noticed that when people say, “God is good!” it’s often in the context of God doing something good for them? I g...

If you read Part One you may be asking the same questions I often get about our spiritual discussion group. I'll answer them he...

"I want to start a group," I told my friend, Suzette, one day. "A group for people who want to talk about God or god...

One of our hens, Gloria, took it upon herself to sit on four fertilized duck eggs until they hatched. They are now more than twice ...

This past week I had the privilege of speaking to the MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) group in the Bedford Hills area outside of New Y...

Yesterday. Rain, grey skies, and a phone call. They hired the "lesser" candidate. We've been here many times before.

We all like to think we’re open-minded. (Well, I suppose there are those who consciously don't want to be. I think I know some...

My daily Bible reading is currently taking me through the prophet books, and old feelings surface as I read Ezekiel, Obadiah, Amos......

I love discovering talented bloggers on the internet. That is, unless they have more talent than me. It happened recently; I stumbled...

I am inching my way, highlighter in hand, through the book Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream  by Dr. David Plat...

When my pastor asked the congregation to join him in a prolonged fast, I was tempted to decline. Grace and freedom, you know—the s...