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› Read more: An Imaginary Interview: Luke & Mary
An Imaginary Interview: Luke & Mary
This Advent, I am beginning a personal study of Luke (which will likely take me all the way through Lent…
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› Read more: What God Gladly Gathers
What God Gladly Gathers
I have a basket near my bed with the collection of things I most treasure. My little treasure and trinket…
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› Read more: To Those Who Feel like They are Going in Circles
To Those Who Feel like They are Going in Circles
I’m not exactly sure what I thought my forties would look like, but I think I had the unspoken, almost…
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› Read more: Spotting and Speaking Beauty
Spotting and Speaking Beauty
In his Nobel lecture, Alexander Solzhenitsyn quotes another his fellow Russian writer Dostoevsky who said, “Beauty will save the world.”…
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› Read more: When Fiction Strengthens Faith: Embodied Hope in Hannah Coulter
When Fiction Strengthens Faith: Embodied Hope in Hannah Coulter
I heard a teacher say the other day, “I am trying to kill the notion that fiction is fake. I…
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› Read more: A Word to the Long-Waiting
A Word to the Long-Waiting
As Dona Maria sat beside her long-time friend and shared stories of their ministry together, I had to hold back…
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› Read more: Is It Well?
Is It Well?
We sang “It is well with my soul” this morning, only I couldn’t sing. I know that I have security…
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› Read more: Living with Proper Proportion
Living with Proper Proportion
I share a roof with teenagers which means that things get easily out of proportion. To their developing brains and…
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› Read more: Catch & Release
Catch & Release
Growing up on the Jersey Shore, my dad took many deep-sea fishing trips with his friends. When they returned, my…
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› Read more: Timely Truths from Wendell Berry
Timely Truths from Wendell Berry
I love reading essays by Wendell Berry, aside from the fact that they make me realize I don’t share his…