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“Everyone should try to spend intentional time with God every day. Except women with small children.”  I was in college, listening to a sermon about friendship. But when the pastor gave women with small children an exception from “quiet times,” I noticed. And I remembered. I’m not sure he was serious, and even if he…

Nearly 40 years ago, Geraldo Rivera exposed the state-run institutions for individuals with disabilities as places where people suffered abuse and neglect. Over the course of the decades that followed, a new model of care developed where children with disabilities stayed home with their parents and adults moved into smaller “group homes.” And yet, as…

The earthquake and tsunami in Japan bring up the same question as every other natural disaster: Where is God? It’s one thing to explain human suffering when humans cause the suffering (i.e. murder, rape, drug abuse). It’s quite another when humans face natural forces that are out of control. Theologians and philosophers offer answers, but…

“Order is the only possibility of rest. The made order must seek the given order, and find its place in it.” –Wendell Berry, “Healing,” in What Are People For? 
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