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Faith

How to Talk with Your Children (and Friends) about Faith Pt. 2

  • Post published:May 9, 2019
  • Post category:Faith
  • Post comments:1 Comment
  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker

Years ago, I wanted to pray for some friends of ours, a married couple who had a great interest in spirituality but who hadn’t landed in any one particular faith.…

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How to Talk with Your Children (and Friends) about Faith Pt. 1

  • Post published:May 1, 2019
  • Post category:Faith/Parenting
  • Post comments:2 Comments
  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker

“I’m just not interested in the Bible,” Penny said a few weeks ago. “I will never understand how evolution and creation can both be true,” William has told me more…

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Participating in Love

  • Post published:April 10, 2019
  • Post category:Faith
  • Post comments:1 Comment
  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker

A few weeks ago, I was giving a series of talks about the love of God to a group of women from The Church of the Good Samaritan, Paoli at…

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What Keeps Us from Love?

  • Post published:April 4, 2019
  • Post category:Faith
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  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker

What keeps us from living the most meaningful life we could live? From experiencing God's love? What keeps us from healing our social divisions? What keeps us from joy and…

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The Call of Lent (And the Temptation)

  • Post published:March 6, 2019
  • Post category:Faith
  • Post comments:2 Comments
  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker

You know that empty container inside the back door where you throw your keys? And maybe also your sunglasses and earbuds and a hair-tie and some loose change and whatever…

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Love That Never Fails

  • Post published:February 14, 2019
  • Post category:Faith/Family
  • Post comments:4 Comments
  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker

On Valentine’s Day, it’s easy to think of love as a weak and meaningless force symbolized by pink candy hearts and carnations. But for people of faith, it’s worth remembering…

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Five Memoirs to Read Alongside White Picket Fences

  • Post published:January 10, 2019
  • Post category:Books/Faith/Privilege and Race
  • Post comments:4 Comments
  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker

Last night, Natasha Sistrunk Robinson, author of A Sojourner’s Truth: Choosing Freedom and Courage in a Divided World, and I read passages from our respective memoirs side by side at…

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Silence, Solitude, Stillness, and…Sickness

  • Post published:December 19, 2018
  • Post category:Faith/Podcast
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  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker

I usually love Sunday mornings. I sleep until I wake up, and then I make a cup of tea and sit in front of the fireplace and read and journal…

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‘Tis the Season for Stress

  • Post published:December 12, 2018
  • Post category:Faith/Family
  • Post comments:5 Comments
  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker

I woke up at 4:32 this morning. I had set the alarm for 5:30, but my body seemed to think that would not do. There was the knowledge that American…

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Jesus Came From A Dysfunctional Family

  • Post published:December 5, 2018
  • Post category:Faith/Family
  • Post comments:3 Comments
  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker

We had Marilee’s parent/teacher conference yesterday morning. We heard about her leadership in the classroom and the play she is writing with her friend Nathan. She’s kind to the other…

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