So many friends said dogs are a huge pain, and they probably are, and also…I think some forced slowing down, inconvenience, irritation even, and love for a dependent creature is a spiritual growth point in my family’s life right now. Here’s hoping we can meet it well!

She’s much too chill for a Warriors 4th quarter and wishes I would cool it too

Our 10th grader is on the varsity softball team & it's Spirit Week for the sports teams. Today's prompt: dress as your top Spotify artist. She went as: Kim Gordon We have officially won at parenting; our work here is done; bring us the finest bagels & muffins in all the land.

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Such a beautiful and hopeful reflection on the work City Hope SF is doing in the Tenderloin. Their commitment to radical hospitality and dignified transformation goes all the way down, and it’s a vision Jon Dahl and I are deeply honored to support! forbes.com/sites/michaelb…

You [Christian friends who work and pray for the welfare of your city] should do this!

To lift from David Dark's Public Interest: there are so many ways to hate God (or bow to the anti-God powers)

Leading a Bible study of Mark during Lent and…yes, this gospel witness makes NO sense apart from this acknowledgment. Also, IMHO, neither does the human experience of a world that feels buffeted by anti-human (ergo anti-God) forces…

Go ahead and be anxious and super-invested in what happens today, but also remember why: democracy is pretty cool, actually! Maybe let’s keep it! open.substack.com/pub/sarahedahl…

On Having a "Word of the Year" open.substack.com/pub/sarahedahl…