A woman sits in her car outside her workplace gripping the steering wheel harder than she realizes. Ten minutes earlier, during a meeting, she lost her train […]
At some point during nearly every graduation ceremony, students hear language that suggests arrival. Years of assignments, examinations, deadlines, tuition payments, stress, and uncertainty culminate in a […]
Do you feel like anxiety has swept you away and you can’t get free? If so, you might be tangled in what is known as the “cycle […]
Most people think of a discrepancy as something that belongs in accounting or math. A number does not match. A receipt is off. A statement does not […]
A growing number of families are hearing the same unsettling sentence from doctors, specialists, hospitals, and caregivers. “Your father has dementia.” “Your wife is showing signs of […]
In her memoir, The Glass Castle, journalist Jeannette Walls describes being a child who learned early that the adults around her could not reliably function as adults. […]
There are certain forms of work that modern culture knows how to applaud. We celebrate the executive who closes the deal, the professor who fills lecture halls, […]
People in emotional or psychological distress often show up in church long before they show up anywhere else. They don’t arrive with labels or clinical language. They […]
You don’t have to be a theologian to understand that scripture places a high value on relationships. For example, check out these verses: “Then the Lord God […]
What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the phrase: Salt and … Macaroni and … Batman and … Bacon and … Thunder and …? […]