Holy Manual Labor!

One sweltering day last summer I locked myself in a back bedroom at a friend’s lake house. While she watched my kids (thank you!!), I spoke on the phone with an old college friend who started a bakery. We talked about the spiritual significance of ordinary, physical tasks; the theology of bread; the ways American […]
Heavenly Bodies

Offering Our Pear Shapes and Fuzzy Brows in Worship “I hardly ever do things like this,” my friend Becky told me on the phone yesterday, “But my daughter needed makeup for a play she’s in, so I took us down to the makeup counter at kind of a nice makeup shop on Main, and I […]