Molds are for Jell-O, not for people.
Our prevailing philosophy is you do you—be who you were made to be, make your own decisions, and live your best life. We just want you to actually do you—not Rachel Maddow or Sean Hannity—based on the...
It’s hard to discuss motherhood because it is such an identity. However, when we get curious, we can shift from the focus on our own perspectives (and our own defensiveness) and think about the other...
Them. Frederick Buechner described grace this way: The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete withou...
Whether you believe our country’s problem is generational, geographical, or partisan, the most important thing to know about the polarization in American politics today is that we are choosing it. We...
It’s important to note that we can push past hard disagreement to places of compromise and problem-solving only if we stand firmly in identities rooted in a humanity and worth that is far beyond the r...
We can come to equally faithful, yet different, conclusions in politics and in the voting booth.2 However, we seem incapable of doing that. The other side’s motives must always be nefarious. It’s not...
Grace helps us make difficult conversations less difficult by tapping into the larger shared mystery of human experience. That’s all it is. We aren’t required to lose ourselves or abandon reason in th...
When President Roosevelt talked about the necessity of work, he meant that the government would create jobs that paid well enough to give people new leases on life. When we talk about job requirements...
We’ve decided to stop calling America divided. Buying into this conflict-driven narrative is a choice, and it’s a choice we’re not going to make. We don’t feel divided from each other or the people in...
We also can’t have productive dialogue with others without getting curious about what stakes color the other person’s perspective. Our stakes aren’t always logical, coherent, or rational, and that’s o...