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Faith

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
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  • 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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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
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  • 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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Revisiting: Deep Calls Out To Deep, But I Long To Stay Shallow

  • Post published:November 8, 2018
  • Post category:Faith/Family
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Candy, mindless scrolling through my phone, checking email instead of working on something of substance, avoiding exercise and time outside, keeping conversation light instead of asking the deeper and more…

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For Those Who Worry

  • Post published:October 17, 2018
  • Post category:Faith
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For Those Who Worry I used to have a hard time calling myself a sinner. It wasn’t that I didn’t believe in sin. Conceptually, I’m on board. Sin is everything…

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When Serving Others Means Letting Yourself Be Served

  • Post published:September 27, 2018
  • Post category:Faith
  • Post comments:2 Comments
  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker

So there’s this famous verse in the Bible where Jesus says he came “not to be served but to serve.” It’s a verse that crept out of the Bible and…

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The Invitation to Confess

  • Post published:September 19, 2018
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I shared this short thought on Facebook over the summer, but also wanted to share it here.... Historically speaking, I am not good at confessing sin. Here’s my problem: I’m…

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Thoughts from May 28 – June 1, 2018

  • Post published:June 2, 2018
  • Post category:Faith/Weekly Thoughts
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  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker

Here are some of my thoughts from this past week, which include my thoughts and questions about hardship and suffering, a video about what it means to follow people in…

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