Give Me a Break: Developing the Habit of Unplugging
According to a recent study, in 2020, the average adult spent more than three hours a day on social media. [1]. Never before has there been a generation with so much information at our fingertips. Every moment we’re connected, we’re notified of weather disasters, accidents, mass shootings, missing people, the COVID death rate, and reports of […]
Being People of Peace in Times of Turmoil
*Dear Readers—As we continue our series on the book of Proverbs, I’m also including in this week’s email, a piece I wrote prior to the presidential election for LifeWay Voices that ran on their website last week. By all accounts, it’s been a bizarre year. When the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve 2020, […]
Dealing With Distraction: Is Your Phone Impacting Your Spiritual Life?
The last time my husband and I were in New York City, we went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For art enthusiasts, the MET is one of the largest and most renowned museums in the world, boasting more than two million pieces of art from every corner of the globe. On any given day, […]
Communicating With Kindness In a Culture of Hostility
I’ve got a friend who hasn’t spoken to his family since November. On Thanksgiving Day, he and his sister got into a fight over politics. The argument escalated and ended badly. Christmas came and went, as did his mother’s eighty-third birthday, and the family is still not speaking to one another. We live in a […]