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Real Simple magazine is running an essay contest where entrants are invited to finish this sentence: “I never thought I’d…” Perhaps I’ll submit an entry about having a daughter with Down syndrome. We’ll see. But I’m pretty sure that what I’m about to write here wouldn’t win. While it’s true that I never thought I’d…

What if someone knew everything about you? Really, everything. All the good and all the bad. What if someone knew the mean words you thought but didn’t say this morning? Or the kind deed you were going to do but didn’t because you were tired, or embarrassed, or because you forgot? What if someone counted…

A few years ago, the National Endowment for the Arts released a report about reading. I wasn’t surprised to find that literacy rates are higher among children whose parents read to them at home. What surprised me was that literacy raters are higher still among children who see their parents reading. In fact, watching their…

Yet another (see last week’s post) Books and Culture article that made me think, encouraged me, and was informative: “The Church on a Justice Mission.”  It describes the work of IJM (the International Justice Mission), the recent commitment among evangelical churches to social justice work, particularly around sex trafficking, and it offers sobering statistics about…
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