I am not Brené Brown. I am not an expert on shame. What I have is life, lessons, and ears that have listened long enough.

She came to the well at noon — when the sun was hottest and the crowds were thinnest. Intentionally.

There's been a lot of noise lately about Sinners — a film many “critics” haven't even seen.

'Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?' So... poetry from Psalms, right? Nope. This is Job.

I was not rushing to read the book of Numbers. It's hard to read — and this is from someone who doesn't love to read anyway.

"The planes crashed. The fires burned. The inauguration happened. And I sat with the very human urge to believe that God had looked away. He hadn't. Here's the poem that came out of that."

It's an ordinary night to end an anything-but-ordinary day. Jarrett Billups is a hilarious churchy teenager who makes videos being himself.

For about 20 of my 28 years on earth, I unashamedly spent Halloween at the Hallelujah Party at my church.

She bore no children. Yet she raised generations and begot relationships. Aunt Sallie was my model for holiness, my symbol of wisdom, my blueprint for grace.

"Time waits for no man" was Geoffrey Chaucer's pretty way of saying time cares nothing about you, yo' mama, yo' auntie, yo' cousin or yo' brother. On this one, Mr. Chaucer was right.

At my 20-week scan, a doctor told me my son had a mass in his chest cavity larger than any he'd ever seen. I went in jolly and excited. I left an absolute wreck. Here's what God did next.

I had Jesus in my heart — or so I thought. Then God showed me that having Him in a section of your heart is actually not having Him at all.

When people told me I was too smart to be a hairdresser, I spiraled. Then I found God's sovereignty in a blowout chair — and it changed how I see everything.

I passed my cosmetology boards and got into an MFA program in the same season. I wasn't going to tell anyone — then the Holy Spirit had other thoughts.