Rapt hosts leaders and servants, preachers and professors, writers and filmmakers, makers and musicians and mystics—imperfect people who create and adventure with God. We talked about identity, personal struggles, my new book, Undaunted Joy, the Holy Spirit, daily spiritual practices, favorite resources that equip me to follow Jesus more closely, and the future. You just might be surprised!
Read MoreDetails:
+ Wednesdays in February 4-5pm PST
+Cost $125 (Paid via Venmo)
+ Limit 8 participants
+Participant will turn in up to 2500 words by Jan 29.
+Each week will open with a generative prompt or craft talk. Followed by workshopping two of the pieces each week. I will let you know which ones they are so that each participant will have read it and made notes for the writer.
Read MoreI wrote on my yearly pilgrimage to Surrey, UK to pray with the monks. I daydream about this place. It is featured greatly in my upcoming book.
Read MoreI saw a reel on Instagram showing pictures of Jesus present in our everyday lives. There was Jesus, sitting at one of those low Kindergarten tables, in a much-too-small-for-him chair, coloring with a small child. He looked as if he were having fun.
Read MoreI am pleased to announce that this Friday, November 15, I will be the Keynote Speaker at the Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature at the University of Dallas. Join me at 5pm as I speak on the topic “May We Never Lose Our Sense of Wonder.”
Read MoreReframing changes everything. When I know God is rooting for me, I don’t need anyone else to. Being my family’s cheerleader is no longer fueled by me but by God.
Read MoreYou may know I love to travel. This is why writing about Finding God in the Airport for Loyola Press was a delight.
Read More“What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?”
This is the premise of Oscar Wilde’s compact novel The Picture of Dorian Grey.
Read MoreI get it. You think you are going to read War and Peace on your vacation. You think of all the time you’ll have at the airport, on the plane, waiting in line for tickets, but the reality is that you’ll see the Barbie movie is available on the in-flight entertainment system and you’d rather stare and quietly judge other families, than read.
Read MoreI wrote about finding God in a quotidian painting like Jean Siméon Chardin’s Soap Bubbles for Ignatian Spirituality.
Read MoreWe have a cover reveal!
Undaunted Joy: The Revolutionary Act of Cultivating Delight will be out April 22, 2025 with Zondervan.
Don’t worry—this isn’t the cover. The cover will be revealed soon. But the book Undaunted Joy: The Revolutionary Act of Cultivating Delight is now available to order.
Read MoreThen I saw it: tiny specks of dust floating in the shaft of light. There seemed to be millions of them! ...I was a superhero with super-amazing vision to see such tiny, little specks of dust.
Read MoreParenting has always been difficult. Yet in the last few years, as a Christian, attempting to guide my children toward holiness has become increasingly more difficult. My children are inundated daily with lies about who they are and their place in this world.
It was in the midst of this frustration that I found Sally Read’s Annunciation: A Call to Faith in a Broken World.
Read More“I convert because the Catholic Church is apostolic. We can trace Pope Francis all the way to St. Peter and all the Apostles; I want to be a part of that.” She was absolutely beaming when she told me this. As someone who grew up in a church founded in the 1970s, I understood. To be part of something with all that history made me feel connected to the panorama of the Church throughout time.
In the book, First Belong to God, Austen Ivereigh quotes Pope Francis when he writes, “Joy is apostolic. It is ‘a clear indictor of grace.’”
Read MoreWhen I decided that I wanted to write a book on Joy, (Undaunted Joy: The Revolutionary Act of Cultivating Delight coming 2025 at Zondervan) I started to look for writers to be in conversation with. I read books already written on joy and then also books that were similar to what I wanted to do. What were these writers doing? What did I want to emulate? What did I want to do differently?
You might find a book or two to inspire you from this list. They are all joyful and thoughtful texts which I will return to and continue to have “conversations with” for years to come.
Read MoreI hope you will join me on Monday as I Zoom into Catholic Women’s Literature class at University of the Incarnate Word!
Read MoreSure I put candy in my kids Easter Baskets, I’m not a GRINCH!
But I love to put a few faithfilled gifts to remind them why we celebrate.
And with Baptisms, First Communions and Confirmations filling up my calendar for the next several months of Sundays, I thought I’d share a few of my favorite faith filled gifts with you.
Read MoreI had so much fun talking about Bald Eagles, my sons and JOY with Courtney Eliis on The Thing WIth Feathers Podcast
I hope you will listen and laugh with me. Or at me.
Read MoreThrives on moments where storytelling, art and faith collide.
If we keep our eyes on Jesus, small acts of service and love, like those lived out by St. Francis Xavier, will reap more rewards than we could ever imagine.
I must pinch myself that I am part of this collection from Ignatius Press ! It comes out next month but is available for preorder now.
How easily we forget that we are, at every moment, shaped with care by a Creator. Artists, however—who know intimately the blood, sweat, and tears of the creative process—can help us sense how marvelous it is to be created: the patience, the detail, the joy. In this essential collection, thirty-one Christian artists from various disciplines, from music to poetry to film to sculpture, offer personal essays on the strange experience of following God’s lead by making beautiful things.
Goldberg is much more practical than many of the texts that I have read. She gives you much to hold onto.
If you know me, you know I love encounters with strangers. Here is one that left me encouraged.
I always come to this prayer time with auspicious expectations. I know God is going to show up. I just don’t know how. I am always surprised how he does.