Sitting at the traffic light on the corner of Villa Road and 99W, I resorted to the well-worn habit of reading stickers on surrounding...

If Ted Lasso, the Apple TV show, is an award winning comedy, then why do I find myself choked up with tears almost every episode? There...

Trevor Hudson, a South African pastor and author, recently received the inaugural Richard Foster Award in Spiritual Formation. Though...

From what I understand, elk hunting season starts soon in Oregon. That's about all I understand about hunting--the one time I went...

As a 20-something assistant professor beginning my academic career, I attended a weekly worship service hosted by students in the green...

Lisa and I have a habit of taking our kayaks out on a river many Friday mornings -- either the Yamhill or the Willamette. In the...

Friends, I have posted and removed this blog entry several times now, demonstrating the deep ambivalence I have about publishing it. If...

I'm 2300 miles from home this week, for a couple reasons. The first is to take a brief personal retreat in a part of the country that...

I once took a nap in the Odessa Opera Theater, maybe in the box just to the right of where the man in the blue shirt is standing. In my...

The doctoral students in the back row objected when I showed compelling demographic data that regular church attenders live, on the...

Some nights don't turn out as well as others. I'm not a psychologist who makes much of dream interpretation, but every now and then a...

When our parents had us eat our vegetables, they probably weren't thinking of French fries. But here are a couple findings from some...

Paul showed up in my office a dozen years ago to tell me he wanted to do a dissertation on wisdom. Nodding politely, I tried to break the...

I’ve never been so lost as in the summer of 1999. Brent (a doctoral student) and I visited Odesa, Ukraine to teach classes on pastoral...

I learned a new word while researching Benjamin Franklin. A polymath is a person with wide-ranging knowledge who is able to solve...

Some have likened writing a book to giving birth, but I fear this metaphor trivializes what it's like to actually have a baby. Writing a...

Like so many others, I find myself in a season of not sleeping well. As a psychologist, I know the sleep hygiene tricks and even follow a...

A dear friend, Jeff, whom I have known and loved for many years now, just reminded me of this final section of a book I wrote long ago....

Lisa and I just finished playing a game of HORSE, but she wanted a handicap so for me it was PIG and for her it was DONKEY. I won't say...

I love theology, but sometimes it sits too comfortably and passively in my head. Yesterday our friend Karl made it come alive again. When...