Brave, Anyway

  • Beatitudes and Bias

    The past year in the U.S. has been hard to watch. The people we’ve elected, the decisions we’ve supported, the direction we’re heading. It all makes me mad. Although I haven’t always succeeded, I’ve tried not to add to the noise because things already feel so divided. But I keep coming back to this: when…

    Beatitudes and Bias

  • A New Year

    My word for 2026 is commitment. Unlike 2025 when I struggled to hear a word, this one came to me months ago. Seemingly a follow-up or wrap-up of things that have been on my heart for a few years now.  This year’s word is specifically about the commitments God makes to us. Commitments we can…

    A New Year

  • All Saints Day

    All Saints Day always scared me as a child. The sound of each bell tolling as names were solemnly read aloud. Death was scarier then, in the fire and brimstone of 1980s end-of-the-world preaching about the wide path that leads to destruction and billboards that asked me where I would go if I died tonight.…

    All Saints Day