Month: July 2024

Well, we’ve heard so much this week about women in leadership, it looks like it’s perfect timing to celebrate the feast of Mary Magdalene (which was honored this past Monday)! If you’re like me though, it may take a minute to make a connection between female leadership and Mary Magdalene, because I don’t think we…

I think I made everybody laugh at Bible study when I candidly asked around if, by the time you retire, you end up being less busy. When they stopped laughing, someone said to me: “Oh, we find other things to do!“ Busyness is really a disease of our time…or maybe it’s not? Because my sense…

Have you ever had someone telling you that if only you had enough faith, your prayers would be answered? When we’re struggling with something, and especially if we struggle for a long time, there is likely to be a good Christian to show up and give us this type of advice: You need to pray…

Xavier and I went to Rome the first year of our marriage. I had never been to Italy, I guess it was the romantic thing to do but also I had an agenda: I wanted to see all the churches and the Vatican, the museums and the Sistine Chapel. So we got up early on…