life
It wasn’t until I had moved back to my hometown, post-graduation, and had to start…
I love to have fun, but sometimes I feel a little guilt about it. It…
Your 20s can be a rough time. You graduate college. You get a job—not necessarily…
In the last 50 years or so, Wendell Berry’s name has become almost synonymous with…
No other word in human language has been misconstrued, mistrusted, celebrated, worshipped and cursed more…
Singles are staying single longer and longer. Advicers are dishing advice quicker and quicker. If…
In our society, we talk about a lot about community. Ever since the nineties, when…
The other day, I grabbed coffee with a friend. We talked about our lives. And…
Yesterday, I opened a kitchen cabinet, and sitting right there on the bottom shelf…
We had been married just over a year. After another demanding week at work, neither…
We’ve all received that phrase “everything happens for a reason” personally gift-wrapped by well-meaning friends, caring loved…
My friend Wendy is a therapist. It’s a good thing to have a friend who…
I’ll never forget the look on her face as she shared the story of her…
The first challenge most marriages must endure does not come from trials and tribulation, but…
The world has fundamentally changed since the great recession of 2008. In 2013 alone, 77…
I got an email from a young man who was feeling frustrated with relationships. He…
I remember being in 6th grade and watching some cheesy family movie where the princess…
Four hundred years ago, Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet and coined the phrases “star-crossed lovers”…
The Church has a lot—a lot—to say about healthy sexuality within marriage. But what about…
When one of our pastors asked how we were doing, I gave him the sanitized,…
The first time I met my husband, it was about as far from “love at…
“So, how’s married life?” It was the question everyone asked us, and one that always…