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Bigotry + Bedhead (naming what’s true)
A simple, sustaining practice to carry us through this chaotic season
This week’s installment of The Soup echoes the Counterweights Weekly format, a limited series thousands of you subscribed to last fall/winter. I’ll briefly share one pol...
Every Book I Read This Summer
(Plus: my reading rules, honest reviews, and 5 things I loved in August)
Cory and I wrapped August up in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, celebrating our 27th anniversary. I didn’t find a Petoskey stone, but our three days away were relaxing an...
What Surprised Me About Marriage
Sea glass without time and grit is just someone’s old beer.
Last week, Cory and I celebrated our 27th anniversary. And by “celebrated,” I mean we worked late, ate dinner at home, then biked into town to sit on some friends’ back patio for...
The Christian Urge to Bob-and-Weave when it comes to Feeding the Hungry
It had been four weeks since The Window partially closed when I spotted T from a distance. She was straddling her bike outside the back doors of the facility, eating something. I’ve known T for a long time, but I wouldn’t have considered he...
Traitors and Guides
This morning I saw a post reminding all the Fall-mongers that it’s summer until September 22nd, when the equinox slams its closing gavel on the season of beaches and peaches and the scent of freedom.
I’ll hold onto summer until my knuckle...
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Leaning into the light and naming what's heavy. ⚖️ No one can love your life for you. Best-selling author of Counterweights & The Ministry of Ordinary Places.
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Writer, reader, ice-cream lover who often finds herself cast as a supporting character in other people's tragedies but is writing her own plotline, too.
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