Pastor Denise was born in Harlem, New York to an 18-year-old single mother who died of a drug overdose when…
Dana VanderLugtJanuary 16, 2022
The refrain of “does it hurt or is it uncomfortable?” still echoes in my brain on this second day of…
Dana VanderLugtJanuary 2, 2022
Between stimulus and response there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response…
Dana VanderLugtNovember 22, 2021
The pandemic has exacerbated all kinds of emotions over the last year. Our collective state of imperfection has also left…
Dana VanderLugtMay 4, 2021
Twenty years ago, in a senior seminar undergrad course, I was assigned to read Frederick Buechner’s essay “Dwarves in the…
Dana VanderLugtMarch 15, 2021
Moving forward in an intentional way involves a lot of sorting. And it involves grief.
Dana VanderLugtFebruary 22, 2021
Murray, our three-year-old golden retriever, is a glutton for attention and refuses to be left out of a book discussion…
Dana VanderLugtAugust 18, 2020
My 14 year-old son sat at a card table in the new makeshift office in my bedroom, complaining about a…
Dana VanderLugtApril 30, 2020
Last Friday, I watched out my office window as children burst out of the doors of their school to board…
Dana VanderLugtMarch 18, 2020
