Posted August 23, 2012 My heart breaks as I update this online book to say that Tim Kretzmann, my dear husband for 34 years, and beloved father of our three grown children, died of cancer on August 6th of this year. So much that I have written here about spiritualizing family life…and it all remains true…But what was largely left…

Is It OK to Stop Talking with My Parents?
Question from Rush: Is it a sin to reject our families, out of spiritual necessity? In Asia, we overvalue family; yet my businessman dad has become so arrogant/blustering that I just cannot be around him anymore, and my mom is unpredictable. Sometimes I just want nothing to do with them, like they weren’t my family in the first place. As a grown man,…