APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  I will love them harder than they fight me. Harder than they fight their father and harder than they might choose to fight God. Harder. And isn't that how God loves us? It's God's kindness that leads us to...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Teen girls are having a cultural moment. Clad in pink and flocking to movie theaters, they've embraced their inner Barbie and launched her dream house world to the top of the box-office mountain....

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  I haven’t been a perfect mom. You know better than anyone just how many mistakes I’ve made. I don’t look back on my motherhood and pump my fists in victory over my amazing parenting. But I do raise my...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Hope is a person. For a long time, I thought hope was a feeling. I thought it was a theoretical idea I was reaching for. But if we're just looking for that feeling in and of itself, we're going to fall...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Stacey and I first started talking about hope for the weary mom over a decade ago. At the time, we needed the message as desperately as anyone else. Today, weariness looks a little different. We're not...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  I stood at the kitchen sink, once again facing a mountain of life stacked every which way overflowing on the counter. I turned on the water and cupped my hands to catch the flow, but filled up quickly and...