It just doesn't seem real. One of my first mentors, my longest boss, and a friend, Rex Hammock, died this week. I went to work for Rex in 1994, my second "real job" after college. Hammock Publishing found me by a series of coincidences that I'll sum up with: Tell your...

It's really funny -- for several years, I haven't blogged regularly. I still write a lot about issues I care about, but I tend to do it on Facebook, where I have a lot of friends who like talking about these issues too. I have been meaning to copy some of that writing...

I've been a member of the United Methodist Church my whole life. I've been angry at the church since I was in high school. That doesn't sound terribly healthy, and I assure you there's more to it than that. I've gotten a lot of good out of my Methodism. But this week...

The morning after the 2016 presidential election, my children were distraught. My two girls the most—they had been so excited to see a woman elected to the most powerful position in the world. They both knew, to differing degrees depending on their ages, that the...