When Love Shows Up
A Weekly Blog
Welcome to the hub of our series, When Love Shows Up, a weekly blog by the Rev. Philip DeVaul. Here, you’ll find inspiring messages with weekly reflections that offer insight and encouragement.

WLSU: What I Learned in 2024
This blog is also available as a podcast I want to do something I don’t normally do. I want to look back on this past

WLSU: Useless Christmas
This blog is also available as a podcast Usually this time of year, as we prepare for Christmas I try to write something about how

WLSU: After The Thing
This blog is also available as a podcast I wonder what happened the next time Lazarus got a bad cough. You remember Lazarus. He was

WLSU: Don’t Let Go
This blog is also available as a podcast 11 years ago my family and I walked into a theater and watched what would become one

WLSU: Work Hard. Be Kind
This blog is also available as a podcast For the last few years I’ve had the privilege of driving my daughter to school most days.

WLSU: The Days After
This blog is also available as a podcast Well, this is the last blog I will publish before the election. I am aware that nothing

WLSU: Believing Now
This blog is also available as a podcast The text message hit my phone at exactly 7am last Sunday. This is not the most unusual thing. Anny often texts

WLSU: Your Voice, Your Place
This blog is also available as a podcast There’s a story in the Bible about a woman grabbing onto the hem of Jesus’ garment as he’s walking through a crowd and it heals

WLSU: Unwelcome Beliefs
This blog is also available as a podcast There’s a story about when the Dean of my seminary was interviewing for the job. He’d gotten

WLSU: Permission to Disagree
This blog is also available as a podcast “So are there other Republicans at the church?” he asked me. And I laughed. I laughed because

WLSU: Christian American
This blog is also available as a podcast Last week I insisted that, as a Christian who is American, I must understand myself as Christian

WLSU: I Love My Country
This blog is also available as a podcast The first morning after I returned from my first trip to Italy, I woke up, went out