Relationships
Forsaking All Others
The Impossibly Uncompromising Promise of Marriage
Trust No One and Question Everything
Trust is much closer to a last resort than a rational decision.
How to Get People to Like You
People love Stephen Colbert. But Ben Affleck? Not so much.
Death and Taxes: How Much Do I Owe Now?
The lenses through which we view the world are tinted monetary-green.
My Favorite Trap
Thoughts on Heather Havrilesky’s Foreverland: “Belovedness shows us how to love and be loved.”
Divorce, Remarriage, and the Vow of God
Robert Farrar Capon’s A Second Day and Electronic Arts’ It Takes Two
God’s Grace for the Wronged
Nelly Barth, Karl Barth, and a scandalous arrangement.
Sisterhood for the Sisterless
Little Woman and the Friends Who Became Like Family
The Gospel and Grizzly Bears
Truly Being Seen by the God Who Won’t Maul Us Apart
The Gift of Growing Up (and Pixar’s Luca)
“I Never Had any Friends Later on Like the Ones I Had When I Was Twelve”
Unforced Love
The Harder We Try, the Less it Happens