BP28 Some believers cling to Jesus like flotsam after a shipwreck. Others chat with Jesus on a Scandinavian luxury cruise ship next to the pool. Some Christians appear to need…

BP27 I spoke at his funeral. My father’s funeral. I didn’t say anything about how good a dad he was to me because he wasn’t. Not in all thirty-four years…

BP26 Departing from the usual format, today’s post for Designer Therapy for Life will follow a young woman on a most unusual Advent journey . . . In spite of…

BP25 Did you ever have a favorite blankie or stuffed animal as a small child that you took to bed with you every night? How about a pacifier? I remember…

BP24 Emily and Samuel were both unhappy with their true self—the person they were on the inside—so they engineered a different identity, a false self. Emily experienced an identity accommodation…

BP23 Humans are hungry. We are hungry for food, for meaning in life, for emotional closeness and love, for sexual intimacy (as opposed to lust). We hunger to belong, to…

BP22 Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you (Proverbs 9:8). Sven was born on a farm in southern…

BP21 I remember my mother’s dying days like they happened last week instead of seven years ago. Several days before she died, I remember pivoting my mother from the commode…

BP20 Years ago, in my practice as a psychologist, I worked with a depressed woman named Anne (not her actual name). She grew up in a family where the old…

BP19 Taylor met her quite serendipitously, some might say. Others would say it was an unholy rendezvous. He had stopped at a restaurant to grab food with his co-workers, a…