When I was about to turn six, I really wanted a Barbie house for my birthday. When I sixteen going on seventeen, I remember crushing on a pair of Frye boots, and insisting that they would be the birthday gift of my dreams. When I was twenty-nine (for the first time, as I often joke…

Because my husband was preaching this morning, I had an opportunity to mediate on Luke 8:28-39 this week. Those thoughts became a reading he used to introduce the story of the text. I’m sharing it because I wondered if some of you might find this creative recounting of the story an encouragement. * * *…

“I’m fed up with Christians these days,” my friend said on the phone last night. She’s spent the last few years living in very intense, intentional discipleship and faith community settings. She’s put her own heart and attitudes both under a microscrope, simultaneously allowing them to be projected onto a big screen in the name…

The relationship between art (and artists) and the church was a chilly one when I first came to faith in Christ in the `70’s. Evangelicalism had a serious case of amensia, leaving itself disconnected from 2000 years of church history. We got kitsch instead of thoughtful, provocative, beautiful art. It’s a lovely thing to see…

I didn’t even know I’d been entered in the Evangelical Press Association’s contest, but apparently my story “Tina Meets The King” came in fifth in the Fiction category. Here’s some irony for you: (1) Since I wasn’t aware that Discipleship Journal had entered the piece in the competition, coming in fifth was a nice little…

Jacob, 20, holding a copy of a screenprinted illustration he’s selling. He’s an art machine. He sees the world in a completely different way. Love it. Love him. Contact me if you want to know how to own your own copy.