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What Is Not Mine to Carry?

  • Post published:December 6, 2021
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My shoulder started to hurt the day our kids went back to school after Thanksgiving break. I hadn’t done anything to injure it. Not even a round of pushups. It…

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S5 E7 | How the Indigenous New Testament Helps Us All with Terry Wildman

  • Post published:November 30, 2021
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“In some ways we judge the story by the storyteller.” Colonialism corrupted the beautiful message of the Gospel when it forced Christianity on Indigenous people. The First Nations Version of…

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Still Time to Join Me This Advent Season!

  • Post published:November 29, 2021
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If you are still looking for a way to prepare spiritually for Christmas this year, you can still order Prepare Him Room (order here) and get it in time to start…

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Read more about the article Returning to My Series on Gratitude
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Returning to My Series on Gratitude

  • Post published:November 22, 2021
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In 2019 I wrote a series of posts on gratitude. This year I'm returning again to the truths I wrote in that series two years ago, such as: Thanksgiving is…

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An Age of Longing

  • Post published:November 15, 2021
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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…

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Reflection Questions to Accompany Advent Devotional

  • Post published:November 11, 2021
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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

  • Post published:November 10, 2021
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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…

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Is Health the Absence of Illness?

  • Post published:November 8, 2021
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​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…

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God Didn’t Create Any Ugly Humans

  • Post published:November 5, 2021
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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…

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Filled with the Fullness

  • Post published:November 3, 2021
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A font of overflowing water.  That’s the image that comes to mind when I read Ephesians 3 and Paul is praying that we could grasp the extent of God’s love…

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The image is a book cover with the title "From Exclusion to Belonging" by Amy Julia Becker. The cover features a group of four smiling teenagers, including a young woman with Down syndrome in the center. They are dressed in casual clothing and appear to be in an outdoor setting with a blurred background of greenery. The design includes a torn paper effect separating the title text from the image. The title text is in a clean, modern font with "FROM EXCLUSION" at the top and "TO BELONGING" at the bottom, with the author's name displayed below.

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