People in wealthy countries are much more likely to be depressed than people in poor countries.* Many have stopped having children because they'r...
My parents loved me the best they could, but our home was a claustrophobic place by the time I was 18. The four walls of my bedroom were not going t...
I'm writing this from Thailand. When I return home from trips like this, Asha, our little Morky dog, invariably will greet me by laying on her b...
Brene Brown is all the rage at Adventures. Her TED talk on vulnerability went viral - nearly 27 million views - and it sure hit a responsive chor...
We all hunger for intimacy; it's hard-wired into humans. We want to go be known and we want to go deep. But getting to a place of intimacy seems more ...
The coffee is good this morning. It's especially good because it's early. I awoke before 6am, but I lay there, because I hadn't slept enough. Then...
Church is important to me, but I struggle with it. I look at Scripture and I look at the Sunday morning social club that church has become, and the ga...
God made you to be great. But you will never walk in the greatness he made you for until you've left your hometown. Hometowns are places of familiarit...
Last night we lost a friend and one of our best kingdom warriors. Kathy Lucas showed me a lot in the decade that I knew her. She knew the stakes and...
We come out of a culture that prizes efficiency and systems. We apply that mindset to spiritual formation and assume that all we have to do to g...
