I'm trying to remember to let you know every time I have an interview, so here we are again.I was pleased to meet Naomi Wright, the head of BeEmboldened, whose mission is to help people heal from harmful religious experiences.Obviously our missions a...

Hello my friends~Usually when I post a blog post and send out the notification, I’m guessing you just go to the link, read the post, and get on with your day.So I wanted to let you know about something that has changed just a bit about the Here’s the...

Hi ~The only way my blog posts have been organized is chronologically (which is kind of like no organization at all) and by their tags (which are not available at the moment while the website is under construction, and which didn't cover everything a...

On a quiet Christmas day (our kiddos were due later in the week), I wanted to do something different from usual. So I sat by the fire and read through and organized absolutely ALL my blog post ideas. When you've been blogging for 13 years, as I have,...

If you were to search my website for the word “capacity,” you’d see that I refer to it quite a few times.In fact, through recent years I’ve thought about it often. The fact is, lack of capacity has been a big problem for me.Today I'm sharing one way...

It isn't just that I didn't want to read about Jesus. I didn't want to read a Scripture that was only about Jesus.It wasn't that I didn't want to read the gospels. I knew, of course, that the gospels were about Jesus.No, I was in the psalms, and . ....

Hello my friend~Perhaps it isn't really the best thing to center our lives around the gospel. Maybe that thinking can be challenged just a bit. Maybe it will help bring some greater clarity into our lives. And not just clarity, but a greater sense of...

Is there any article you can point me to about “don’t be a stumbling block” and how that’s weaponized?That’s a note I received through my Facebook Untwisting Scriptures page, from Amanda Sanchez, until recently a third-generation member of the United...

I’ve had a few epiphanies in my lifetime, and all of them have been important. But this one, this is the biggie.It happened in November of 2004, eighteen years ago this month. I was scrubbing the kitchen floor. While I scrubbed, I listened to some Bi...

View this email as a blog post here.It is a negative label, and one of accusation. Always.I’ve been pondering this term for years, but recently a book coaching client of mine used the term in reference to himself, raising the subject anew for me.The...