Featured Book Review: Walking with God

“It is our deepest need, as human beings, to learn to live intimately with God,” John Eldredge observes in Walking with God. “It is what we were made for.” There is a ...

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Lately || October 2025

Last week, my kids and I were playing on the playground at our YMCA when a woman in her fifties came over to talk. She’d spotted the kids’ matching Sports Day t-shirts ...

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Convicted

Earlier this month, Christian singer-songwriter Forrest Frank made waves when he announced that he would not be attending the Dove Awards. In a social media post about his decision, the musician explained ...

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Bookish Considerations: What do you do when your reading feels broken?

I have heard many avid readers talk about the ways that books have saved them in their hardest moments. When life gets difficult, or sad, or simply busy, they are able to ...

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In Praise of Handwashing Dishes (and why we don’t own a working dishwasher)

I grew up in a home without a dishwasher. Technically, we owned a dishwasher, but I don’t recall seeing my mom use it in the twenty-three years I lived in my parents’ ...

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Quick Lit + October 2025

This Quick Lit looks a little different than most. I have three books from a single series (I rarely continue with a series, let alone back-to-back!), and five of the ten books ...

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Grace and Peace

The pastor at our new church recently began a year-long teaching series on the book of Ephesians. I love this expository preaching style that takes the focus away from the topic of ...

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Lately || September 2025

I am not sure if I actually lived the month of September or simply free-fell through it. We are in what is possibly the busiest season our family has EVER experienced, and ...

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A Love That Grows

“Mama?” Kali’s quivering voice belied her confidence as she broke through the cacophony of voices clamoring for my attention. “Before Sully and I were born, did Charlie have all your love?” Her ...

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Kalinda Joy & Sullivan Luke || Now we are six!

My dearest Kali Joy and Sully Luke, Happy 6th birthday (in two days) to the sweetest pair of twins there ever was! Goodness gracious, how I love the two of you and ...

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