Love Apple

“Love Apple” n. A tomato. [Probably translation of French pomme d'amour (from the former belief in the tomato's aphrodisiacal powers) :pomme, apple + de, of + amour, love.]

Sticks & Stones

Sometimes we forget about the power of words. In simple verbal exchanges with family, friends and strangers we have the opportunity to build up or tear down. Are we attentive to what and how we say things?

Sticks & Stones

Words of affirmation and validation can uplift and transform, just as words of belittlement and hate can tear down… and kill.

What Is Your Love Language?

I am well aware that Valentine’s Day was on Monday. I’m also well aware that I wrote my annual epic tome on love last week. However, I’m just so excited about the way things went down for Valentine’s Day, I wanted to share it with you.

Interactive:Fragile

Join us as we explore love and what it means to love ourselves through this interactive post that uses text and music to wrestle with this idea. Then let us know your thoughts in the comments!

Fragile

Do you remember Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown? On the surface, there is a pretty straight-forward message about the nature of real love that lots of us miss on Valentine’s Day… but what if there’s more we’re missing?

A Season for Exiles

Cultivating Mindfulness By Lisa Maas This week I’d like to share a few short excerpts from one of my favorite books, “May I Have This Dance?  An Invitation to Faithful Prayer Throughout the Year” by Joyce Rupp.  In the chapter “December:  Homecoming,” Rupp writes: Advent is a season for exiles. It is a time of [...]

Raising our Bliss Tolerance

Guest Columnist Steve Roberts Love comes to town I’m gonna jump that train When love comes to town I’m gonna catch that flame When Loves Comes to Town – U2 During a particularly sullen period for me as a teenager, my Grandpa Roscoe saddled up next to me and said in his southern drawl, “Son, [...]

Driscoll: “Boys And Girls, The Party’s Over”

Miss Meg Goes to Washington Meg Biallas This is second in a series on the clash of feminism, Gen-Y dating culture and the Church. The series was inspired from reading “Unhooked: How Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both” and her recent blog post on “Digital Disciple.” Apparently I’m not the only one [...]

Coming Into My Own (And What Is That, Exactly?)

Miss Meg Goes to Washington Meg Biallas If you’ve ever played Trivial Pursuit, you know that each game piece is a different color. Each piece has its own compartment. In high school, my youth group had a retreat centered on that theme: striving for authenticity in a compartmentalized world. But as I’ve grown up, my [...]