When I as about ten, my parents decided to take a houseboat vacation on the Mississippi. My dad had never piloted a bot before, but he did a lot of things he ha...
I fell in love with whales in Nova Scotia. We took one of my dream trips that summer, driving from Boston to Nova Scotia and around that wild, wonder-filled mar...
There is an ongoing struggle in our house. My husband sincerely believes that the garbage needs to go out on Thursday night, the night before the garbage truck ...
I was an avowed atheist when I was six.
Our parents dutifully sent my sister (8) and me off to Sunday school every week (well, semi-dutifully) with a quarter...
As a pastor, I am "in a relationship" with the Fuller Youth Institute. I'm not even shy about it. In a culture that makes it challenging for our kids’ faith to ...
I don’t remember where I first read the story, but it was probably in one of my mother’s old Ideals magazines. They had glossy covers, harder than standard pap...
Those of you who follow me on Instagram know I went to Scotland in September. Those who know me well know that Scotland was mere subterfuge.
Not that I didn’...
I grew up on cop and courtroom shows. I loved the drama of catching the bad guy or seeing a lawyer convince the jury, in commanding tones of injured justice, th...
Relationships are complicated. My husband and I were friends for a year before we started to date. Before he finally asked, however, we danced around each other...
Warning—incoming honesty missile. This may be TMI on my relationship with my husband, but here goes. Trust me, I'm not telling you anything he doesn't know.
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What do you want?
It can be a loaded question. Depending on the day and the questioner, we can answer it in a number of ways.
On an average day, my answer...
Last December, I got into my husband’s car to go see Christmas lights. It was the last thing I did before pain like I’ve never known invaded my body for the nex...
Jill Richardson serves as Lead Pastor at Resolution Church in Chicagoland. She has published five books and contributed to others from Lillenas Publishing House and Christianity Today. Favorite topics for writing, speaking, and Facebook ranting include: grace, the terrible messages we send to teenagers, risk taking and fighting fear, communicating with and learning from the Millennial generation, being a Christian in a post-Christian world (without being a jerk), church, writing, missions, and travel. Her MDiv comes from Bethel Seminary in St Paul with an emphasis in theology and preaching, and she is in the midst of a doctorate program at Gordon-Conwell in Leadership in a Changing Church Context. In another age, she also studied English at Washington University. She has an unnatural love for Middle-earth, chocolate marzipan, old musicals, fish tacos, and Earl Grey. She believes in Jesus, grace, restoration, kindness, justice, and the Cubs. Her passion is her tagline: Picturing Faith with the Next Generation. She can be found at jillmrichardson.com.
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