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Read more about the article Our Unexpected Sunday School Teachers

Our Unexpected Sunday School Teachers

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:March 17, 2021
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For the past five years, I’ve been in charge of organizing the Sunday school teachers at our church. It’s always a little tricky to fill every slot, but for the…

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Read more about the article Hope: Spring Is Coming

Hope: Spring Is Coming

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:March 10, 2021
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Here in western Connecticut, we walk outside and still encounter persistent, crackly, frozen-into-ice snow on the ground. A park ranger informed me on Sunday that the ice on the lake…

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Read more about the article Coming Home to Love

Coming Home to Love

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • 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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Read more about the article Uncertainty, Control, and the Election

Uncertainty, Control, and the Election

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:November 4, 2020
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We awoke to uncertainty, and I find myself wrestling with uncertainty, control, and the election. There is a part of me that wants to say, “God is in control,” as…

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Read more about the article Rectifying Educational Injustice: My Bumbling Journey

Rectifying Educational Injustice: My Bumbling Journey

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:August 19, 2020
  • Post category:Family/Parenting/Privilege and Race
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In mid-April, the disparity between my kids’ experience of education and the kids in neighboring towns and cities began to feel unconscionable. Yes, the pandemic highlighted the difference. But now…

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Read more about the article It Doesn’t Have to Be Groundhog Day

It Doesn’t Have to Be Groundhog Day

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  • Post published:May 19, 2020
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I’ve heard our moment compared to Groundhog Day again and again and again. If you missed it, Groundhog Day is a great movie from the 1990s in which Phil Connors…

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Read more about the article AJB Recommends: Talking with Doctors Who Are Christians About COVID-19

AJB Recommends: Talking with Doctors Who Are Christians About COVID-19

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:May 4, 2020
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I happened to listen to two doctors talking about COVID-19 from their vantage point as physicians and people of faith. In the first interview, Dr. Danny Avula, Director of Public…

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Read more about the article How My Daughter Convinced Me We Can Help {Ep 107}

How My Daughter Convinced Me We Can Help {Ep 107}

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:April 28, 2020
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My Aunt Jane sent us five masks a few weeks ago (see photo). When the masks came, after we decided who gets which one and did a little modeling, I…

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Read more about the article Toilet Paper, Hoarding, and Sharing

Toilet Paper, Hoarding, and Sharing

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  • Post published:April 27, 2020
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I bought a 9-pack of toilet paper in the grocery store last week. Yes. It was a brand I didn’t recognize, but it was soft toilet paper nonetheless. (Note: I…

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Read more about the article Where Is God When People Suffer {Ep 106}

Where Is God When People Suffer {Ep 106}

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:April 21, 2020
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Over the past few years, I’ve become more and more convinced that love is the foundation of all reality. Love is the deepest truth about God, about creation, about humans.…

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