Posts tagged perfection

Shortly after my 12th birthday, lightning struck the house we lived in. It cracked the bathtub my father had bathed in barely an hour earlier. …

  Perfectionism focuses on self, on myself specifically— it asks what I have done, what I have failed to do, whether my record is clean …

Growing up, I learned the standard definition—that  sin is the transgression of the law. Not exactly wrong, but it throws us right back into the …

Teaching computer literacy at a community college, on the first day of class I always asked the same question: what do computers always and only …

It’s haunted me since childhood: “Be perfect,” Jesus says, “as your Father in Heaven is perfect.” For a while I tried hard, I gave it …