The exhaustion that comes from chasing rest: Aimee Joseph begins, “Americans are notorious for needing vacations from their vacations. We work extra hours to save up an exorbitant amount of money so that we can plan an extended vacation for rest. During this “restful” vacation, we try to see all the sites, snap all the pics for all the posts, and eat at all the highest-rated restaurants. If our step counts outpace our spending, we have succeeded!”
Are you as connected to the church as you want to be? Benjamin Vrbicek says, “The biggest wet blanket in ministry, in my experience, is being ghosted; it’s when people quiet quit and just disappear. Poof. That is what I find so hard.”
A rabbit, a dryer, and a pastor’s wisdom: Lisa LaGeorge shares, “The dryer wasn’t really the problem. The rabbit wasn’t the problem. The problem was me. I took time off work. I googled dryer schematics. I convinced myself I had to handle it. Somewhere in the midst of it all, I felt the existential weight of being single and alone.”
Why did God command killing in the Bible? John Lennox explains.
Tolkien expert: you don’t understand the Lord of the Rings: Some gold nuggets of truth in here. And, I’m sure we can all agree, is exactly what a Tolkien expert ought to look like.
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