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An Age of Longing
We are living in an age of longing. When I was younger, I read “classic American novels” about people (mostly boys) who sought after truth, sought to find themselves, sought…
Dance Theatre of Harlem
It was quite a gift to watch the Harlem Dance Theatre with Penny on Thursday. First of all, the dancing itself was beautiful and powerful and fun and interesting. But…
Reflection Questions to Accompany Advent Devotional
We are already making plans for Christmas. The kids have given me their gift lists, via Google docs, with hyperlinks. The girls have started working on a dance to the…
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Ruth and the Quartet of the Vulnerable
I never knew the book of Ruth was a book about social justice. I’ve been reading it recently with a small group Bible study, though, and we realized this past…
FINAL Final Draft of To Be Made Well
My current stack of books: When the Body Says No Life of the Beloved God's Hotel No Cure for Being Human Becoming Friends of Time The Very Good Gospel…
Is Health the Absence of Illness?
I’ve been working on a new introduction for my next book (To Be Made Well: An Invitation to Wholeness, Healing, and Health). My editor felt like I needed to do…
And Then They Grew Up…
And then they grew up, and each went off with their respective friends, and they came home with lots of candy. (Here’s what happens when your kids are old enough…
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God Didn’t Create Any Ugly Humans
A prominent pastor and theologian spoke at length earlier this week about why God might make some people unattractive. He lumped together “ugliness” with disfigurement and disability and then went…
Grateful I Get to Do This Work
When I receive responses like this, I can only feel grateful that I get to do this work: “My daughter and I thoroughly enjoyed your weekend discussion. I left with…
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