A Friendship Deeper Than 'Besties'
All my life I've yearned for deep friendship. I had companions. I wasn't particularly lonely. But somehow my friendships never satisfied the longing I felt for something more.
I wanted not just what Anne of Green Gables calls a bosom friend, but a mentor, a spiritual ...
Single Ladies Need Better Work-Life Balance, Too
Working women are looking to one of the world's top female execs, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, as she dishes out advice on work in her much-written-about, much-talked-about book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.
In a world where we expect to have to choose ...
When 'Leaning In' Isn't Enough
Marissa Mayer does it. Condeleezza Rice admits to it; so does Meg Whitman. And while I suspect Sheryl Sandberg indulges, in Lean In, her bestselling new non-fiction grenade on girl-power in high corporate places, the topic never comes up.
The topic is prayer—God's ...
It's OK to Talk Like a Christian
In the video "Stuff Christians Say," two guys toss around a dictionary's worth of Christian lingo: non-denom, God thing, secular, relevant. It's funny because the actors sound like the people we all know who repeat the latest religious phrase until it becomes ...
The Generation Gap Among Christian Women
Dear women of my generation,
How did there come to be such a divide between older and younger women in the church? How is it that today's generation of Christian women are more likely to list a celebrity like Angelina Jolie as their hero rather than a mentor, leader, ...
The Myth of the Christian Nut Job
Several months into graduate school at my secular university, a classmate startled me with a gutsy question: "Is it hard to talk about Jesus in class?"
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The group responded with a wave of support. "I can't believe you feel that way! We want you to ...
How to Wait for a Slow-Moving Messiah
Shhh. Enuma Okoro is inviting us to listen to God in silence this Advent.
At this season of the year, the air bustles with the hurried cadence of the annual December Festivus Frenzy, with its cacophony of shoppingholidaypartiescookieexchangesconcertsdecoratingwrapping. ...
Gaining the Whole World Wide Web without Losing Our Souls
The people of Sweden are the "best" in the world at using the Internet. That's according to a five-year study conducted by the World Wide Web Foundation, which recently released its findings.
What does it mean to be "best" at using the Internet? It's an interesting question in ...
Steve Jobs, Back to School, and Why Doubt Belongs in Your Youth Group Curriculum
As a young boy, Steve Jobs attended a Lutheran church with his parents. At age 13, he asked the pastor, "If I raise my finger, will God know which one I'm going to raise even before I do it?"
The pastor answered, "Yes, God knows everything."
Jobs then pulled out a Life magazine ...
In the Wake of Suicide's Silence: Why Blame Is Never the Answer
I received the fateful call almost 15 years ago. My husband and I, then married little more than a year, were winding our way out of rural Ohio, where we had spent the weekend celebrating the wedding of friends. My phone rang. It was my mother.
"Your brother is dead," she said ...
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