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Lighten Up: Learning from Kids January 15, 2016

Our football team in Minnesota (the Vikings) lost in the first round of the playoffs last Sunday in a most heartbreaking way due to a missed field goal. The kicker (Blair Walsh) has had to endure some pretty harsh criticism on social media, which is exactly what you would expect. But then these kids come…

Lighten Up: Oh my… I am so very very scared… May 17, 2013

Well, my dear friend Frankie V. once again has a bad case of verbal diarrhea (explains his breath lately), running off about how he’s going to smack me down in our “all-out, no holds barred, ring-side seat, verbal wrestling match” on the open view of the future. I’m supposed to shutter in my boots at…

Guest Post: Reasons Why You Should Pray More March 16, 2015

Despite the fact that the Bible is full of prayerful people, most churches today don’t pray very much at all. In fact, we barely talk about prayer, even though it’s one of the most foundational pieces of the Christian faith. I recently went on a 37,000-mile prayer pilgrimage around the world, a modern re-working of…

Lighten Up: Losing Sleep February 6, 2015

Cartoon via xkcd It’s OK. You can go to bed.

Lighten Up: Keep Going August 23, 2013

Yes.

Lighten Up: Existential French Cat January 4, 2013

Greg used to be into the existentialists quite a bit. Sartre and Camus would love this cat. (Thanks to Rachel Held Evans for the heads-up.)