We can choose to turn our grief into love rather than hate — to use our mourning as a means to unite rather than divide.

Over the last few weeks, I have been considering what it looks like to prepare spiritually to be a flexible, faithful and functional...

Hope is a word we often hear, but it becomes real when we live it and when others share it with us. Hope is more than optimism or wishing...

I am sure I have shared this quote or one similar to it before, but it has been on my mind again so I thought it would be worth sharing...

Recently, in my personal life, I have experienced heartbreak on behalf of a child. Outside circumstances, the actions of others, and a...

I was recently reminded of election night. I didn't cry, but I felt like it. For the first time in my life as a voter, every single human...

Over the years, I have thought often about Frederick Douglass’ description of the injury done to the souls of his oppressors. Speaking of...

(Note: I originally wrote this six years ago and was grateful to my younger self for her words when I found them again recently). I first...

Several women have communicated with me about how they struggle to worship with fellow Saints on opposite sides of the political...

A woman I respect was recently interviewed by a journalist I also respect about the insufficiency of peacemaking as an approach to the...

Today, I want to share some stories that have prompted me to reflect on what it looks like to love and move in closer—inspired by the...

I was revisiting Isaiah 6  this week after seeing a verse of this scripture being used in a very spiritually manipulative and divisive...

As I contemplated how to write a devotional that encompasses both the celebration of independence and the context of our current events,...

Earlier this week during an offboarding conversation with an intern, I was asked a question about what strategies or perspectives help me...

The last few weeks (months?) have felt so heavy — political violence, the nonstop news cycle and pace of politics, people in my life...