“Get comfortable being uncomfortable,” says the artwork hanging on my living room wall. The words sit within a tangle of orange squiggles. Whether or not the artist, Hugh McLeod, meant for the squiggles to represent the jumbled feelings that come when life takes a different direction, they do for me. Relocations have been those transitions….
Today’s younger generations, according to the Pew Research Center, may be leaving religion for good. Four in ten millennials now say they are religiously unaffiliated. They are “now almost as likely to say they have no religion as they are to identify as Christian.“ (1) This may sound alarming especially if you live in a…
My Christian upbringing taught me the gravity of sin. I knew I was a sinner. Knowing the joy of forgiveness, not so much. My parents herded me and my four siblings to church every Sunday, usually twice. I attended Sunday school where my aunt lined up her pupils against the wall and instructed us to…