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Dear Nate… (on your first day of Fourth Grade) Ah, Nate. You are killing me with this smile. I can see all the parts of you in it–your…

Dear Sam… Crazy. That’s what this year is. Bananas. Everything is new: you’re at a different school and now it’s also middle school and our new lives in…

Dear Catie… It’s a little hard to believe you’re starting over again. We moved houses. You moved schools. Sophomore year and you’re having to deal with #freshmanproblems again.…

10. That girl at your church who helps at VBS…or in the nursery…or in the praise band. (Or, you know, that one teen girl who only shows up…

This post originally appeared on the CPH Blog. First, the bad news…. our teen girls are in crisis. I’m worried about them and you should be too. My oldest…

https://youtu.be/8u76l8CQXtk What is Shine? Shine is my new book. It’s a six-week Bible study filled with stories, discussion questions, journal prompts, and prayers. Shine is my favorite of all my…

This school has become our family and our home. And not it’s time to say goodbye. For the last decade, Westlake Prep has been the seventh member of…

I write for teens and for moms, so talk to them both a lot about what’s happening in their lives. Over the past few years, something has changed. Daughters…

This is a reprint of a story I shared in Love Rules. It’s about how God loves us and redeems the most dead parts of us. Ultimately, this…