The Most Glamorous Question

A lot of ink and pixels have been spent the past few months on the term “quiet quitting.” In case you’ve managed to avoid hearing about it, here’s a good succinct definition: In a nutshell, “quiet quitting” is about rejecting the notion that work has to take over one’s life and that employees should goContinue reading “The Most Glamorous Question”

Announcing my new Advent ebook: Four Weeks

For almost as long as I wrote at my former blog, I undertook a practice every Advent of writing a weekly reflection about the season. I always referred to these posts as “part diary, part devotional:” they’d usually be about my own experiences of the holidays in both life and ministry, and I’d often relateContinue reading “Announcing my new Advent ebook: Four Weeks”

Laughing Was Holy

I once told a story during a sermon about a little boy sitting in a sanctuary pew on a Sunday morning. He kept turning around in his seat and smiling at the people behind him. Eventually the boy’s mother leaned over and made him face the front, saying “Stop smiling, you’re in church!” There’s aContinue reading “Laughing Was Holy”