Recently, Bravo aired a marathon of Top Chef Season 2, which I eagerly watched during late nights with the baby.
In addition to featuring fun cooking challenges and great food, this particular season of Top Chef focused on the relationships...
Last week, we talked about 11 signs you might be burning out.
Unfortunately, it's not enough to simply recognize you're burning out. Instead, you have to proactively deal with burnout. Next week, we'll explore strategies for coping with burnout...
In a recent sermon, mega church pastor and evangelical Christian leader, Andy Stanley said, “We want churches to be large enough so that there are enough middle schoolers and high schoolers that we don't have one youth group with middle school and...
What I'm Reading:
Fiction:
I read a LOT during February, completing six fiction books. Among them, my favorites were:
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom. I don't know how I missed this when it came out in 2010. It was SO good -...
I am the product of an all-girls Catholic high school.
Without a doubt, I got a good education at the all-girls Catholic high school I attended. Beyond that, though, my all-girls education gave me all sorts of leadership opportunities –...
There are a few times a year when I hit a ministry slump: January / February and then again in August.
In both cases, exhaustion contributes to my slump. I enter January exhausted from the holidays only to then go full-throttle into two of my...
Today, I'm linking up with Kate Motaung's Five Minute Friday. The rules: Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.
This week's prompt: Forget.
During this season of motherhood, there is so much I don't ever...
Shortly before our annual winter retreat, a parent asked me, “Do you need any more chaperones for the winter retreat?”
For a second, I honestly didn't know what this parent was talking about.
My youth ministry doesn't have chaperones.
It does,...
What the book's about: I Am Malala is Malala Yousafzai's account of her life in the Swat Valley in Pakistan, her desire to see ALL people, especially girls, have access to education, and her fight for her own life after being shot by the Taliban...
I'm currently doing some research for Exodus World Service, an organization that mobilizes the Christian community to welcome refugees. As part of this, I was reading some background information on the organization written by one of it's founders,...