Faith at home
Prayer, Sunday, and the hope that lives in a kitchen. · 6 articles
Hoping out loud
Writing down a hope can be useful. Believing we can make it come true is another matter. Where manifesting ends and prayer begins, at a kitchen table.
August 27, 2026 · 5 min read
Grief does not need a lesson attached to it
The impulse to find the meaning in a loss, and to say it out loud to the person who had the loss, is nearly always a way of handling our own discomfort. On sitting still instead.
April 25, 2026 · 5 min read
The pew that used to be full
A reader asks what to do when the children you raised in church stopped going. An answer from someone who has watched it happen from the back office for nineteen years.
February 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The church directory is a map of who will show up
The photo book with everyone's phone number is the most practical document a congregation owns, and it is not for looking up numbers.
October 1, 2025 · 2 min read
Sabbath, for the person who cooks it
A day of rest is, in most houses, a day of rest for the people who are not making it. A short note on who gets the seventh day.
May 30, 2025 · 2 min read
What to do with a prayer list that keeps getting longer
A reader writes that her list has forty-one names on it and she has started to dread opening the notebook. Some practical answers, and one that is not practical at all.
January 9, 2025 · 2 min read