Brewed

If coffee is a good enough catalyst for people to form bonds and become vulnerable with one another, shouldn’t mutual faith in Jesus be an even better one?

Sunday supper

The aromas were delectable, but more than the food I remember the satisfaction that came from the joy of loved ones gathered around the dinner table.

Simple Joys

As we near the end of winter, take time to consider the things that fill your space. If you were moving tomorrow, what would you take with you?

Broken Wholeness

They were quite the pair, the cook and her kitchen, both a little broken, both temporarily limited, and neither as new as they used to be.

Seeing beauty in the ordinary

I recently found myself sitting at a piano in a recording studio in the middle of the woods, playing an original tune about finding
beauty in solitude.

The gift of sustaining love

Interstate 65 cuts through a massive wind farm in Northern Indiana. Driving through it from my Illinois home to the Happy Corner Church of the Brethren in Clayton, Ohio, last week, I got to thinking about a few different kinds of energy. For human beings, energy comes from many places—rest, work, space, closeness—and we all

Faith that calls for pumpkin-esk patience

He looked at the field and laughed out loud. “I never noticed how funny looking pumpkins were,” he said.

Sacred Surprises

In the quiet of a Wednesday dusk, gathered around a candle and a table full of food, my friends and I accidentally found ourselves having church.

Deeply rooted, tassels in the breeze

More than flavor, the way corn grows is perhaps what makes it stand out the most.

Enjoy God’s Bounty

There are not many things more satisfying than picking produce off the vine or digging it out of the dirt and eating it still warm from the sun…