At this point in the season, we’re past our Lenten promises — many of them unfulfilled — and wondering if we’ve allowed ourselves to be changed at all during these 40 days. Has the journey brought us closer to God? Closer to our true self? Closer to ...
We were debating the merits of the latest Taylor Swift album with our teenage daughter one Saturday morning recently, when the conversation morphed into a ...
Bring on another new year. We are not afraid. Or are we? So often, we enter the new year disappointed by what didn't happen the year before and overcommitted ...
Happy New Year! If you've frequented this blog before, you know that we do not do resolutions here at Not Strictly Spiritual. Why? Because they don't work. ...
You will often hear me talk about being in "darkness," and almost always those posts happily wrap up with a light at the end of the tunnel, a glimmer of ...
As we head into another new year and people everywhere jump on the diet and fitness resolution bandwagon, I thought I'd rewind to last year at this time when ...
I love Advent and Christmas. Really I do. I wear a Santa hat, light the Advent wreath, deck the halls, and drink eggnog like it's going out of style, but ...
I was searching for something in my digital files and came across this column from January 2012. It seemed to ring true all over again, although, to be ...
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As we move through the O Antiphons this week, I thought I'd let Amy Grant do the talking for me, at least for today, with this ...
Okay, here’s the question of the day: Is the Christmas stocking important or irrelevant? This debate rages at our house each Christmas season. For me, the ...