Identity
Life’s Not a Talent Show
Practice, it turns out, is not guaranteed to make perfect.
Our Secret Lives
What often lies dormant in us can be used as a grace in the hands of God.
The Cross and the Fracturing of Our Stories
The Gospel, and our lives, cannot be reduced to narratives.
Nostalgia for What Might Have Been
Why this life? Out of a hundred or a thousand alternatives. (From A-Tumblin’ Down)
Lying to Ourselves
Proust, Midwestern Emo, Hume, and Our Transient Identities
The Hero’s Journey Home
Where the Wild Things Are and St. Augustine On Identity
The Secret to a Lighter Heart
An Anti-Resolution Worth Keeping
The Grief and Gift of Bodily Limitations
Where We Witness the Underground Mercy of God
Is Therapy the Cure?
The therapist’s chair could be replacing our community and the pulpit.
Strangers to Ourselves
“There are stories that save us, and stories that trap us.”
The Gift of Self-Forgetfulness
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace.
