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Shalom on the journey

Lynne Baab • Thursday October 16 2025

The Apostle Paul is interested in relational harmony and peace among Christians. “Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. Bear with one another” (Colossians 3:12, 13). Paul also longs for internal harmony and peace. “I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. . . . For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do” (Romans 7:15, 19).

Paul’s inner turmoil has been so comforting to me....

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Common discovery on the journey

Lynne Baab • Tuesday September 30 2025

Samuel Wells writes that trying to be inclusive and trying to exercise hospitality can have overtones of pride and control because we are the ones doing the action. Instead of using the terms “inclusive” or “hospitable,” he suggests,

“A better term might be common discovery — something we more readily appreciate when we’re away from our own familiar territory. It’s not, ‘You can belong in my club because I’m generous.’ It’s, ‘Being with you is showing me there’s something beyond us both, toward which we’re each heading, and to which I’m realizing you’re in many ways closer than I am. Let’s make...

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My healing journey

Lynne Baab • Wednesday September 24 2025

“You’re a binge eater?” my friend asked me, after seeing the title of my new book, Almost Peaceful: My Journey of Healing from Binge Eating.

“Well, I was,” I answered. “For decades.”

In various blog posts, I have mentioned struggling with my weight. I’ve never gone into much detail because I didn’t want to admit I engaged in binge eating. I also couldn’t write about it because I didn’t understand why I did it. For me, needing to understand what’s going on is primordial and utterly necessary. Binge eating, or compulsive eating as we called it back when I started doing it, felt...

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Paying attention on the journey

Lynne Baab • Tuesday September 16 2025

I invite you to ponder this statement: “The most important judgments in life are between . . .” How would you complete that sentence? Right and wrong? Good and evil? Kind and unkind? Loving and selfish?

I found an intriguing statement about important judgments in an unexpected place: a letter to the editor in Christianity Today. The writer of the letter, Anthony Hess, was responding to an article about monasticism. He writes:

“Fundamentalism assumes that the most important judgments in life are between good and evil. Monasticism reveals that the most important decisions are between attention and distraction.” [1]

I’m not sure I would...

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