Ann Boyd

Ann Boyd offers strategies for staying connected to God and grounded in reality through the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ann Boyd reflects on the calling we have to be peacemakers in the midst of our divisive culture.

What strategies do you have to get perspective when life feels overwhelming? Ann Boyd offers her thoughts on staying relaxed despite the pressures of a new school year.

Sometimes a well-placed question can change the shape of your future — or at least, it can help you think carefully about your next few weeks. Ann Boyd offers a framework to help you live with intention.

Ann Boyd shares her struggle to sit still to listen for the voice of God-with-us during the busiest season of the year.

How will you thrive this summer? Ann Boyd asks questions to help you think it through.

Ann Boyd reflects on how raising daughters spurred her on to join in the Women’s March on Chicago.

I started listening to Christmas music early this year. We usually adhere to a strict no-Christmas-music-before-Thanksgiving rule, but my need for comfort was so intense that I felt the call to stray from our usual practice the week before Thanksgiving...

Ann Boyd reflects on the insight that comes from paying attention to life's small irritations.

Our 1925 bungalow kitchen opens onto what was once a small porch and is now a small, poorly-insulated mudroom — a “three-season room.” In the summer, we can tolerate the heat waves that emanate from that space, but in the winter...

Ann Boyd considers the problem of multi-tasking in this final post of her series on Mary and Martha.

Ann Boyd reflects on the nature of task-orientation in this third of five reflections on the story of Mary and Martha.

Ann Boyd shares of her gratitude to Mary in this first of five reflections on the story of Mary and Martha.

Ann Boyd introduces a sustainable system for daily journaling that has been an important tool for spiritual formation in her life.

Years ago, I read Stephen Covey's influential book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, and it helped shape my life as a young...