This week along the way
This week, I continued my series Grace Between the Lines with a piece about the unlikely mystic who cracked open the door to the spiritual life for me: Wayne Dyer. Yes, that Wayne Dyer—the PBS pledge-drive regular with the bald head and soft-spoken certainty of someone who’d definitely read the Bhagavad Gita more than once. In this post, I reflect on how his books and broadcasts served as my first taste of a bigger, more generous spirituality—one that didn’t start with guilt or end with exclusion. Before I ever darkened the door of a church as an adult, Wayne Dyer had already baptized me (unofficially, of course) into the wild world of inner transformation, presence, and grace that somehow always felt like Jesus in disguise...
How a PBS Mystic Became My Spiritual Gateway Drug
This is the second post in a series I’m calling ‘Grace Between the Lines’—a journey through the beautifully strange overlap between Lutheran theology, mystical spirituality, and the books and ideas that have shaped me along the way. Whether you’ve been with me since the early days or you’re just arriving at this odd little corner of the internet, I’m so…
In a lighter (and delightfully scented) moment this week, I shared a piece inspired by the quasi spiritual practices of today’s fifth graders—namely, their deep devotion to Touchland hand sanitizer. If you haven’t witnessed the sacred spritzing rituals of tweens lately, let me assure you: this stuff is basically holy water with a mango mist. Watching my daughter’s friends treat this tiny bottle with the kind of reverence usually reserved for relics and Taylor Swift tickets got me thinking about how even the smallest habits can become sacraments. It’s a fun little reflection on the liturgies of modern childhood and the surprising places we find meaning, belonging, and maybe accidentally stumble into a purity circle we never expected...
How Touchland Became a Tween Sacrament
This post is a playful detour from my ongoing “Grace Between the Lines” series—a chance to stretch out, laugh a little, and maybe see the sacred hiding in something as absurdly trendy as scented hand sanitizer.
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🕊️ New Sermon: "Who Was I to Hinder God?"
This one hit close to home. In Acts 11, Peter finds himself shocked by the Spirit’s generosity—falling on the “wrong” people at the “wrong” time in the “wrong” place. Sound familiar?
This sermon explores what happens when grace shows up ahead of us, breaks our categories, and dares us to love people we thought were off-limits. It’s not about politics—it’s about the scandal of a God who refuses to play by our ego’s rules.
Give it a listen if you’ve ever found yourself wondering, “Wait… God’s moving over THERE?”
Spoiler: Yep. And always has been.