Thinking Again: Yes, That’s Me on Instagram Again
The most important tool for the critical thinker is the willingness to think again about the issues, circumstances, and situations that fill our thoughts. Read more
Poetry and Prose on the Prairie: A Nature Journal of Prophetstown State Park {EXCERPT}
Each time I visited Prophetstown after that, I noticed the constant change of the landscape. I watched as snow melted, water thawed, and green began to appear on the tips of every branch. But I paid just as much attention to the sky, cloudless and bright some days, dark and moody on others. Read more
Elephant Culture, Giving Up Social Media, and What’s over the Horizon
As I thought about that philosophy, I began to see it simply as this: use new technology to support your life rather than adapting your life to support new technology. It sounded like what I needed. Read more
Strangely Spiritual: A Paradox on the Front Porch
Strange indeed is the paradox by which we all must wrestle: the things that are most spiritual, the things that care for our souls and bring us deeply into the presence of God, are often the things we wouldn’t call spiritual at all. Read more
Desert Wonderings: Where Is God Leading Me?
Getting to know God and discovering where he’s leading us are the same thing. When we trust him, we follow him. And where he’s leading us is always closer to his presence. Read more
Desert Wonderings: How Is God Providing for Me?
What God established in the fertile garden of Eden and continued in the barren desert of Sin, He promises in every time and place since: He will provide for his people. Read more
Desert Wonderings: What Miracles is God Performing in My Life?
If I don’t make myself remember and see then I’ll likely forget and continue to be blinded from all God is doing in my life even now. Read more
Desert Wonderings: Why Do I Grumble and Complain?
During their 40 years wandering the desert, the Israelites developed a reputation for their own grumbling. Read more
Desert Wonderings: When Do I Act Immorally?
As we wander deeper into the wilderness of Lent, I wonder: when do you and I act immorally? Not if but when. When do we fail to glorify God with our bodies, sexually or otherwise? Read more
Desert Wonderings: What Are the Idols in My Life?
As we press into this season of Lent, our first desert wondering is this: what are the idols in our lives? What are the influences of our own world that we easily revert to when things are hard or when God seems absent? Read more