Tag: distraction

  • Why I’m excited about my first Social Media Sabbath

    Why I’m excited about my first Social Media Sabbath

    A social media sabbath is about taking time away from distraction. For personal and mental health. This one is for a month.

  • Plenty of Road

    Plenty of Road

    Lent is a season of discipline. This week’s gospel is a real test for our ability to keep our focus on the goal.

  • Martha is distracted

    Martha is distracted

    The Mary and Martha story in Luke is so familiar. We make typologies of the characters. And often avoid its significance.

  • Why I started listening to music again

    Why I started listening to music again

    I love music. Famously addicted to shoegazing and dreampop. Then—I stopped. Here’s why I’m bringing it back.

  • Our Brains Are Broken

    Our Brains Are Broken

    Modern society has broken our brains through distraction and anxiety. So the solution requires us to change society.

  • Breathing Stillness

    Breathing Stillness

    In the holiday season, we hear Jesus’s invite us to listen and hear in the midst of chaos—a call, not to ending it, but being in the center of it.

  • The siren song of weeds

    The siren song of weeds

    I wrote a post the other day in which I typed “reign” when I should have typed “rein”. It was a simple slip, and one I didn’t notice. It was pointed out on Facebook and for the next day, the only comments on the post were about the spelling. The post was actually a bold post of…