Previously: Benches One of my favorite books that I’ve read this year is Hell Is A World Without You by Jason Kirk. It chronicles the exploits of a group of evangelical teenagers in the early 2000s as they navigate faith issues, questions, and relationships. I recognize the experiences from my own brief stint in evangelicalContinue reading “Second Week of Advent: Pageant”
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Ghosts
Moving from one stage of life to another is never a clean break. We expand our families, we change jobs, we change communities. We may move three states away or from one company to another. But whatever our complete body of work in life has been, including our hangups, our spiritual scabs, our grudges, theContinue reading “Ghosts”
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”