Bearing the sorrows of the world: A timely piece by Brianna Lambert, “In-between funny reels and crock-pot recipes my feeds shake me with tragedy. Another bomb dropped, another missile fired. Another leader declares war, another group of Christians brutally murdered. My weather app might tell me about a mudslide that kills hundreds while the local news reports on a newly discovered grave of dozens of victims. Sorrow never ends.”
Ozempic Christianity: Christopher Cook says, “In a culture increasingly shaped by immediacy and optimization, even our spiritual hunger has been co-opted by the language of quick returns. I’m exhausted by it. We no longer desire to become. Instead, we want to arrive. We want wholeness without the necessary, soul-deep wounding that refines us, depth without death, and spiritual authority (read: platform) without submission.”
How to spot the difference between good and bad therapy: Eric Geiger says, “The question isn’t whether therapy can help, it’s how we discern between therapy that helps and therapy that harms.”
When you don’t understand God: Caleb Davis begins, “I didn’t understand what God was doing when my wife had her first miscarriage. I didn’t understand the years of infertility that followed and remain. I didn’t understand when my friend, with four children and a pregnant wife, died of brain cancer. I didn’t understand why I had to hold my friend’s stillborn baby in my arms.”
The biggest mistake lottery winners make: It’s surprising how applicable this wisdom is to the ordinary person.

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