It’s laugh-out-loud funny. It’s interesting. It’s crude. It’s well-written. It’s an unbelievable story. So there are lots of reasons why I should have loved this book. But after about two chapters, I started skimming. In Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen, Janzen details her experience of going back home to live with…

Anne Rice says she has “quit being a Christian.” NPR ran an interview with her and she explained her decision: “I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being ‘Christian’ or to being part of Christianity.”  I have two thoughts in response. One, that part of remaining committed to Christ is remaining committed…

According to a recent article in the New York Times, The New Abortion Providers, “Abortion remains the most common surgical procedure for American women; one-third of them will have one by the age of 45.” Although the rate of abortion has held steady for the past few decades (at about 1.2 million per year), the…

You are to be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own. (Leviticus 20:26)   Tonight at church, the pastor was preaching on Hab…Haba…(help me, Google)… Habakkuk (thanks, buddy). We’re doing a series on it, and tonight he began to describe…

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