“The Human Starter Kit” In an episode of the TV show The Good Place titled “Best Self” (Season Two, Episode 9), the immortal being Michael is named an “honorary human” by his human friends and given a “Human Starter Kit” as a gift. He is thrilled. “Car keys! So I can
Living as a Christian minimalist, I end up having a lot of conversations with folks who are curious. Many times, they’re curious about minimalism in general– but more often than not, people really want to know how I connect minimalism to my Christian faith. One of the major reasons I
When I was in seminary (graduate school for people called by God to public ministry), I broke my foot. If you’ve ever broken a bone, you know painful it can be. But even more than that, you know how inconvenient it can be. Simple actions that you could do with
One of the questions I get asked a lot is some version of “How does your husband feel about this Christian minimalism thing??” Well, I recently got to sit down with my husband Will to talk about his experience with Christian minimalism– and what it’s like being married to a
Recently, I moved work spaces. I’ve already written about minimalism and moving (our living space) in previous blog posts, but I realized that I never wrote about how moving my work space helped me to minimize and focus my work. Moving to a different work space and unpacking everything forced
“I gave them my sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, so that they might know that I the Lord sanctify them.” (Ezekiel 20:12) I’m terrible at rest. Like, really, really bad. I know that God instituted the sabbath for a reason. I know that Jesus took time out
“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” ~St Augustine of Hippo, Confessions One of the things I love about being part of the human race is that God has created each of us to be uniquely different. We each