These posts include stories from my life as I seek to live a transformed faith.
I just found out that a dear friend has stage 3 cancer. I don’t even know what that means, except that she had surgery yesterday, and I was told by another friend to pray, pray, pray. (For privacy I am not putting her name, but she doesn’t live in Chicago.) I used to live with …
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? Psalm 8:3-4 While I was on retreat in Maine this June, I did some experimenting with my camera. I …
In June I took a one-week retreat to a little cottage called The Sea Urchin. It’s nestled on the coast of remote Maine where I first encountered the tides in any significant way. I’ve made my peace with the tides by now, but the first summer that I spent a week at the Sea Urchin, …
The name of my blog used to be “Perfectly Imperfect,” by which I was trying to say that it’s okay to be imperfect. More than that, I was trying to remind myself that it’s okay that I am not perfect, but it didn’t work! The name just made me feel like I had to be …
Back in 2003, the first full year that I was working as a minister in Wicker Park, I was interviewed for a “Spiritual Journey” segment on a Chicago TV show called 30 Good Minutes. In the video I tell the story of my separation from Christianity as a teenager, and years later feeling welcomed at …