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Author: Amy Julia Becker

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Read more about the article AJB Recommends: Gifts for People Who Already Have Everything

AJB Recommends: Gifts for People Who Already Have Everything

  • Post published:December 3, 2020
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For the past three years, I have taken Marilee with me on the annual trip to buy gifts for her eleven cousins. This year, she selected each gift—with confidence—in approximately…

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Read more about the article Advent, Hope, and Canceled Parties

Advent, Hope, and Canceled Parties

  • Post published:December 2, 2020
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This year the calendar walks us through a season of Advent, hope, and canceled parties. The weird thing about being a practicing Christian in America in December is that the…

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Walk With Me Through Advent

  • Post published:November 28, 2020
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The Christmas decorations took over our local CVS months ago, and our kids made their annual transition from constant conversation about Halloween costumes to constant conversation about Christmas gift lists…

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Thankfulness or Toxic Positivity?

  • Post published:November 27, 2020
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Many of us are away from family and friends at a time of year when we usually gather together. I don’t want to be too relentlessly upbeat about this sad…

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A Series on Gratitude

  • Post published:November 25, 2020
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In 2019 I wrote a series of posts on gratitude. Thanksgiving feels different this year, and I'm finding I need reminders of the truths I wrote in the gratitude series…

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Read more about the article Pointe Shoes and Developing Perseverance

Pointe Shoes and Developing Perseverance

  • Post published:November 24, 2020
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Penny got new pointe shoes last week. For a long time, I thought pointe—which requires strength in both the feet and ankles that I didn’t believe Penny would ever have—would…

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Love Your Enemies

  • Post published:November 21, 2020
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Imagine being a leader of a school or a church or a community with a staff that included a white man wearing a MAGA hat and a Black woman wearing…

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Read more about the article AJB Recommends: How to Love Across Divisions

AJB Recommends: How to Love Across Divisions

  • Post published:November 20, 2020
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I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to love people across the various divisions we experience right now, and these podcasts and articles have been helpful to me:…

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Coming Home to Love

  • Post published:November 19, 2020
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In this season, can we say we are coming home to love? One of the commands in the New Testament is to “abide” in God’s love. Not to be good.…

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My High Schooler’s Independence

  • Post published:November 18, 2020
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I was recently reminded of my high schooler's independence. Last week I left the girls home alone together while I went to the grocery store. Before I went, I suggested…

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