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Shiksas Go Home: This Week in the Twible, The Book of Ezra
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Jana Riess
This week we begin exploring Ezra-Nehemiah, which was a single document back in the day, but which we have divided into two because our attention spans are very, very short. Ezra was a scribe, priest, and acting mayor who led one of the groups of returnees back from Babylon to Jerusalem. The first half of…
WJK Radio Podcast: The Pain of Miscarriage
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Jana Riess
I know I have blogged–okay, bragged–about Elise Erikson Barrett’s book before, but I wanted to provide a link to the most recent WJK Radio podcast in which she is interviewed about her new book, What Was Lost: A Christian Journey through Miscarriage. In the interview I got to ask her about some of my favorite…
Saved by Depression: Guest Blogger Eric Wilson on How Darkness Saved His Soul
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Jana Riess
If you’re unlucky enough to be depressed, our society tells you to pop a pill and put on a happy face — anything to avoid wallowing in sadness. But today’s guest blogger, Eric G. Wilson, suggests in his new memoir The Mercy of Eternity: A Memoir of Depression and Grace (Northwestern University Press, 2010) that…
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