Pattern-Changing Questions

In my college years, I was part of an evangelical-leaning group that made use of a small booklet titled the Four Spiritual Laws. A few members of the leadership team swore by this tract as a tool for “witnessing” to non-Christians, the basic approach being to walk them through the tenets it contained and thenContinue reading “Pattern-Changing Questions”

What I Love Doing

Jan Edmiston has been a favorite online voice of mine for many years. She blogs almost daily about issues facing people in ministry, churches, and denominations as Christendom continues to crumble. Recently, she shared a question from a colleague: What are you paid to do that you love doing? The idea behind the question isContinue reading “What I Love Doing”

Book Review: The Way Home by Ben Katt

This review first appeared at The Englewood Review of Books. I confess a personal stake in wanting to read and review The Way Home: Discovering the Hero’s Journey to Wholeness at Midlife by Ben Katt. That personal stake is, simply, that I myself would be considered a part of Katt’s target audience. I turned 45 just aContinue reading “Book Review: The Way Home by Ben Katt”