No ‘Normal’ Way to Heal
No one fully appreciates normal until it is taken away, and often normal slips away in the blink of an eye with little warning or preparation.
What Lament Has to Do with Justice
Without lament we don’t have a vehicle for repentance and we can’t move into shalom.
The Best I Can Do: A Lament for Lost Control
The loss of control is wearing me down.
Where Have All the Sad Songs Gone?
In the omission of lament, we miss an important truth in worship: Jesus comes near the brokenhearted.
3 Lessons From a Pastor Up Close to the Kentucky School Shooting
How can we work together as a faith community to help serve and minister to people in the grip of shock, pain, emotional trauma, grief and loss?
The Wrong Choice? An Advent Meditation
Did Mary make a wrong choice? We know how the story ends, but viscerally I cannot fathom the toll her son’s suffering took upon her life.
Letters to My Unborn Children: the Silent Grief of Miscarriage
BY: SHAWN COLLINS -- Our first pregnancy in 2004 ended in a miscarriage right after Easter. Through my wife Kristine’s five....