Hey friends - I'm super excited to let you know about a project I've been working on for Lent this year. I've been talking for years about doing more substantive writing,…
I've dealt on and off with depression for most of my adult life. Starting in high school I can remember the warmth of summer giving way to the darkness and…
Dear Bloom - Four years ago this weekend our family rolled into Denver in a U-Haul, excited and scared witless about the prospect of joining you in the very unlikely…
An image: You're running a race, the road clearly marked out. There are thousands of other runners, and on each side of the road are grandstands full of people, cheering,…
In the last six months or so, I've started to find the language for a tension I live with. I'll never forget reading Henri Nouwen's The Wounded Healer years ago and coming…
Hey Bloom Family - About this time four years ago, my family and I were on the verge of making one of the biggest and (in retrospect) best decisions of…
"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise." - Psalm 51 A broken spirit. That moment when you finally come…
Today is Ash Wednesday. Around the world today, from every denominational and theological stripe, Christians will gather in churches to smear ashes on their heads, remember the primal turn away…
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