I’ve written for a variety of publications on topics such as parenting, wellness and faith. My stories have been published in The Washington Post, Fast Company, The Everymom, Coffee + Crumbs, Living Lutheran and more.

Features

• LIRS, partners welcome Afghan allies
• The spiritual discipline of rest
• Where all may dwell
• A song in the midst of suffering
• Attuned to God’s call
• Leadership lessons from Kamala Harris
• Hard conversations: How to talk to kids about white privilege
• A source of light
• The spirituality of natural burials
• Tap into your vocation
• How to have your best year yet — without resolutions
• What moms need to know about workplace discrimination
• How to teach kids to have healthy body image
• Stories of hope and resilience
• Drowning happens so easily. Here’s what parents get wrong about water safety.*
• Young adults claim camp as church home
• Three truths and two lies from Girl, Stop Apologizing
• Ten things all women need to know about IVF
• How to teach values to babies and toddlers
• These are the biggest postpartum issues for moms
• Six stress-free ways to get your kids involved with tidying up
• Is it a marriage deal breaker if your partner doesn’t want more kids?
• What Tidying Up can teach us about grace
• This is exactly how new moms feel — so why isn’t anyone talking about it?
• Fit & faithful
• Eight doable New Year’s resolutions for moms
• What science tells us about raising faithful children
• Gathered together, changed forever
• How to write a great email
• A chain of support
• Why millennials aren’t at church
• On clergy juggling two jobs**
• Refugees grow food and community
• How pets influence our faith
• Church for children with special needs
• On sexism in the church
• Lutheran response to Gulf Coast flooding
• Refugees start over in Michigan
• Proclaiming God’s love: From Cambodia to Costa Rica
• The invitation

*One of The Washington Post’s top On Parenting articles in 2019.

**Winner of an Associated Church Press Award of Merit in 2017.

Reflections

• Dinnertime dilemma
• Erős vár a mi Istenünk
• Colors of Grief
• Searching for the Spirit
• Abundant Love, an eight day email devotional with Kimberly Knowle-Zeller
• What nourishes us
• Empty shelves and questions
• Who is God?
• Hunger
• I’m not a perfect mom — these are my confessions
• Illumination
• Four ways having a baby changed our marriage
• Five ways to free yourself from perfectionistic parenting
• How motherhood inspires lifelong learning
• The Enneagram and God’s grace
• What Scripture says about God’s love
• Raising a cheerful giver
• Four important steps to take when you’re feeling burned out
• Hover mom
• Embracing imperfection makes me a better mom
• How motherhood helps me overcome people-pleasing
• When I screamed at my son, it felt unforgiveable
• How I finally overcame working mom guilt
• Sin and forgiveness
• Ten things I would tell my pre-mom self
• Birth story: Moments after, I heard ‘he’s not breathing’
• How I’m teaching my son about Christmas
• Why and how I prioritize self-care as a mom
• It’s going to be alright: Wrestling with working motherhood
• The faith of my grandfathers
• Why becoming a mother actually boosted my career
• This is how I finally confronted my office bully
• What helped end my #fitspo obsession–for good*
• To my mom, with love
• Back on my mat
• On expecting a baby during Advent

*Listen to an interview I did about this story here.