Today marks Day 40 for my family. Forty days since I last picked up my daughter from preschool. Forty days since our in-person church gatherings were put on hold. Forty days of not leaving the house for homeschool group…

It’s a hard time to be patient. With social distancing. With our families. With our Amazon orders. It’s a hard time to not be easily angered. By our government. By friends on social media. By our kitchens that just…

Conspiracy theories speckle my newsfeeds. After all, the powerful alliances that call the shots in this world have not been short on giving us reasons to distrust them. But God’s words to Isaiah stop me in my clicks and…

We aren’t a patient people. We are an order-anything-from-Amazon-and-have-it-delivered-on-our-doorstep-in-two-days people. A fly-across-the-country-in-hours people. A send-someone-a-message-instantly-and-wait-moments-for-their-reply-before-wondering-if-something-is-wrong people. We get frustrated when the people who are supposed to fix it don’t fix it immediately. Especially when we are used to representatives…

I’m leading worship from my home. My pastor is preaching from his home. We stream our feebleness in solidarity with a church community that is, yes, at home. It isn’t polished, and honestly, I don’t want it to be.…