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Cancel everything. When I read that headline in The Atlantic, it was my B.C./A.C. moment. Before Coronavirus. After Coronavirus. Most...
An Ancient Kind of Easter
It’s Saturday, the day between death and resurrection. Two thousand years ago, Holy Saturday was a day of stillness, uncertainty,...
This Season of Ashes (A Reflection on COVID-19)
This year, instead of doing Lent, Lent is doing me. In my faith tradition, Lent is the spiritual season observed...
Quit Listening to Your Feelings ASAP (Says the Shrink)
The plane is taxiing for takeoff and my ten year-old daughter Caitlin is terrified. She’s sitting next to me, folded...
Look Up at the Magic Show
I didn’t even look up. We were boarded and buckled in, our phones were on airplane mode, and the flight...
Take Back Your Attention, Your Year, and Your Life
As I write this, it’s mid-December 2019, and I turned 43 this week. The average American male lives to the...
You Don’t Find Your Passion in Reflection, It Finds You in Action
My oldest son Aidan is sixteen, and last weekend he did something that gives me great hope for his life....
Maybe It's Better to Break It Than to Protect It
The dining room table was protected. I was leading the 2019 Loveable Retreat Weekend at the 4U Ranch outside of...
There's No Such Thing As Arriving
It was the best vacation I’d ever experienced, but I couldn’t figure out why until I looked down at my...
A Journal of Death and Resurrection
January 6, 2019 I share the last post of a blogging era in which I published on average once a...
The End of a Seven-Year-Long Chapter (The Beginning of a New One)
Something happened to me last summer, and it is still happening. In June, a friend sent me an article about...
The Conclusion to the Loveable Podcast [Loveable 054]
"We’ve been taught to believe life is only meaningful if we’re getting from here to there—doing a lot, becoming more...
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In his debut novel, Kelly weaves a page-turning, plot-twisting tale that explores the spiritual depths of identity and relationships, amidst themes of healing, grace, faith, forgiveness, and freedom.
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan is a psychologist, author, consultant, and speaker who enjoys walking with people through the three essentials of a truly satisfying life: worthiness, belonging, and purpose. His blog writings have been featured in Reader’s Digest, The Huffington Post, The 5 Love Languages, and the TODAY Show. Kelly is the author of Loveable and True Companions.