What are your most vivid family memories? We all have them: Those moments frozen in time. Moments our heart will never forget. I think of a quiet night in the hospital with my newborn son, holding him in my arms while I watched snow falling outside the windows. “I’ll teach you how to make snow… View more
When it comes to Mother’s Day genius, I think I may have peeked in fifth grade. That was the year my teacher embarked on the dubious adventure of teaching our class how to basketweave. Some of the results were . . . rather interesting. (You know I mean ugly, right?) My basket, though? It was a… View more
God’s laid it on my heart to speak plainly today. So my plea is simple: Fellow white moms, we need to move past “colorblindness.” We have to talk about race. It took an African daughter and a whole lot of prodding by the Holy Spirit for me to see colorblindness for what it really is:… View more
As current events and renewed anti-racism movements have revealed, our country still grapples with issues of race. But this isn’t just a “political” issue. It’s a faith issue for those of us who follow Jesus: Do we care about the racial divide in the American church? Will we look outside of our own experience and… View more
