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New media and public grief
I come from people who visit graves. My maternal grandfather died when my mother was an infant. She grew up going to visit...
Journeying: An Advent Reflection
The third in my four-part series on Advent from the perspective of pregnancy. I draw on the Advent theme of Journeying...
Accepting: Reflections on Advent
The second in my four-part series on Advent for the religion website Patheos.com. I’m writing about the time when we...
Advent: Pregnant Waiting
I'm writing a four-part Advent Series for the religion website Patheos.com. The first article is out today. The church year...
Wrestling with God and Depression
On November 18, 2012, I spoke at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, CA in the Rector's Forum on "Wrestling with God...
Pinning God
I dashed into the small coffee shop to get out of the rain. The sound of the rain echoed around me as I discovered that I...
What Churches Do
“Can your church help out with that? Isn’t this what churches do?” I heard that question on two separate occasions as I...
A Journey with Depression
"Somewhere between my unanswered prayers and the realization that I could not worship myself into happiness, my faith died....
Up All Night
I don’t sleep at night anymore. I have a newborn baby, with twenty-four hour needs that come in one hour intervals. My...