My mother lies in her nursing-home bed, her upper body and head elevated. I sit beside her bed, reading her a psalm. She knows who I am, and she watches me, but not with delight.

Newborn: Search for a parent’s love

Mama’s story ended where it should have begun – with so much lost in the chaos of trying to rewrite the start. And both of us still looking for a parent’s love.

Against a snowy background stands a black iron gate, locked with multiple padlocks of different colors and shapes.

Shunning in the church

Any group that shuns is withholding your deepest needs in order to control you. That’s the opposite of loving you. It’s people you trusted, trying to erase you.

Three gray wolves, standing together on a rock ledge, threatening, howling

Cliques in the church

Cliques are by nature, exclusive. Wherever they occur in the church landscape, they fragment the church. They prevent the people of God from becoming one.

A man stands on a a rock ledge, looking out across a sea of clouds. Black, blue and gray arrows drawn onto the photo point in all different directions

The enemies of rest

I’ve updated Return to Your Rest, and included a chapter about enemies of rest I have faced. May God give us courage to rise up in the face of all that fights against it - and to return to rest.