Home Songs is now available. Many thanks to @wipfandstock for publishing, and to those who have read and supported my work along the way. My hope with this chapbook is to explore the beauty and spiritual significance of "home" as a concept and place.

RT @pauljpastor: The vital battle of this generation will be to hold Real Life against its multiplying and vicious simulacrums.

Really appreciate Catherine's comments here. It seems that the importance of mom's presence in the little years used to be more widely accepted, but certainly so in conservative circles. Now, a mom who's literally only around for her little ones on the weekend is praised in @WSJ.

RT @BradWilcoxIFS: The conservative-women-having-it-all model promoted by WSJ "is not a genuinely countercultural model. It’s a rebranded v….

RT @jeff_bilbro: In which I recommend essays by @Jenpmichel, @Chris_arnade, @jennfrey, @JoshuaHeavin, @amjuster, @clairekelloway, @jenmacra….

I think this is a common grace that God has given us. Even if their most deeply held beliefs fundamentally contradict the goodness and given-ness of new life, many (not all) people rejoice at the wonder of a little child.

Even if folks believe that unborn babies aren't persons, think that having babies in your early 20s (like we did) is foolish, don't want kids, can't have kids, have been sterilized because they're "done", or already have a lot of their own kids, they like to see and hold babies!.

One thing I've noticed since my daughter was born is that, at least in the abstract, most people like babies, regardless of their religious beliefs or backgrounds or personal decisions. Babies bring joy wherever they go.

RT @Plough: “We are not mere spirits that happen to dwell in flesh and bones for a short while on earth; instead, we are embodied beings. P….

RT @Plough: “It never occurred to me that the way I was living was not unlike the Platonism I had studied in school: as if my body and soul….

I've never written about the eating disorder I suffered from in my teenage years, so my latest from @Plough - a piece reflecting on the goodness and given-ness of food in God's created order - was a somewhat difficult piece for me to write. Read below if interested.

RT @jacqueboatman: “But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry no….

Reflections on music, the good life, and the value of amateur endeavors for @intellectualTO: .

RT @LeahLibresco: The Widow’s Mites. Two mites, two drops, yet all her house and land, . Fall from a steady heart, though trembling….

RT @nic_lucc: “In a hundred years, if Christians are known as a strange group of people who don't kill their children and don't kill the el….

Reflections on our materialist culture and the true necessities for and costs of raising children: .

RT @Zheschool: Announcement: America excited to make its children dumber.

RT @LeahLibresco: The people promoting eugenic IVF keep talking as though they’re using CRISPR to change dangerous mutations. They’re *ch….

RT @emmma_camp_: This tech does not *prevent* any children from going blind. It ensures that children who may go blind will never be born.

Read "Home Songs" for more of this sentiment.