Catch up on Season 13 episodes
When I was suddenly diagnosed with cancer, words to describe my situation came easily. I was “sick,” or “desperately ill,” or, let’s face it, “dying.” Now that modern medicine and lots of prayers have wrought a miracle, I’m no longer so close to death but what am I? Doctors will not allow the word “cured”…
Hello my dears, Today, I want to introduce you to someone very special to me—my mom! Since we’re in the Mother’s Day spirit around here, I thought it would only be right to invite my mom to answer one of the questions I get all the time. Without further ado, meet Karen! She has a…
In the wake of Rachel Held Evan’s death, so many of you have asked questions like: What do I do with these awful feelings? When will they stop? Can I feel sad even if I never met her? I hope this will help. I know it helped me. How to Grieve Well: A Special Conversation…
Hello dear friends, We are launching the new season of Everything Happens with heavy hearts today. We join those grieving our teacher and author and pastor and friend, Rachel Held Evans. Rachel, 37, died suddenly on Saturday and leaves behind her husband and two kids. I have been working on taping a fresh podcast season…
Hello My Dears, Well, it’s been a minute. But I am thrilled to announce that we’re back! (And also deeply apologetic it took this long. So long. I am really sorry about that.) A new season of the Everything Happens Podcast will launch on Tuesday, May 7th. We all carry labels we wouldn’t necessarily choose…
Easter isn’t just one day—it is an entire season. The next fifty days celebrate Jesus’ victory over Sin and Death—which is even longer than Lent. It’s a reversal that resounds through all time and eternity, but can we party that long? You may have experienced that Easter joy again this year, where the truth of…
And so here we are: this is Holy Week, the final days of Lent. It is a time jam-packed with emotional lows and highs, powerful theology and moving services such as the foot washing of Maundy Thursday, the darkness of Tenebrae, and the vigils of Saturday night. Or maybe you are braving the Good Friday…
Next Sunday is Palm Sunday, the day that marks the joyous entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. As in every other occasion of his earthly time among us, our expectations are reversed, and we are surprised again by a world turned upside down. It was not a warrior’s stallion that bore Jesus through the gates and…
If you attend a church that observes the liturgical calendar, this weekend you may have noticed the sanctuary decorated with flowers, clergy clad in pink vestments, and the organist may have been allowed her chance at that instrumental solo she has been longing to launch into. But why? Aren’t we observing Lent—a season for the…
As children most of us wrote to Santa Claus to ask for particular Christmas gifts. I’m not sure all of us asked our parents for the Jem doll, a 1980s version of Barbie except that her neck was extra thick to accommodate the double A batteries that made her ears light up. But we all…
We feel our smallness when we consider the universe, unutterably vast, dark, and scattered. Whole swaths of space are empty while elsewhere galaxies drift through the void for eons of time before colliding with each other. Some stars go nova and incinerate the planets orbiting them, expending themselves in an explosion so powerful that our…
When I was a little girl, my parents would bribe me with a dollar for every poem I memorized. It is disconcerting to see a child recite some of the sexier parts of Romeo and Juliet, but, what can I say, that was my idea of rebellion. My father, the history professor, was big on…
Explore our Advent devotionals designed for every journey—whether you’re reflecting on your own, gathering with a group, or diving deeper in a Bible study or Sunday school setting.
