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I graduated from Seminary on Saturday. It was seven years in the making, to finish the three year degree (at least seven is a Biblical number). I now have what is called a “Masters of Divinity,” a rather unfortunate title. By my reckoning, one of the goals of a Seminary education is to teach us…

I have a new post at her.menuetics. It begins: In her new and buzzworthy book, For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage, The New York Times‘s Tara Parker-Pope examines what brain chemistry and genes have to do with happy marriages. She begins a recent Well column with a question: “Why do some men and…

A few months into our life with a child with Down syndrome, I realized that we live in exactly the right place at exactly the right time with exactly the right resources. We are within an hour of the best children’s hospital in the nation, a hospital that has a satellite office 15 minutes away.…

I was recently asked to write, in 100 words or less, an answer to the question: “How is the Holy Spirit at work in the world today?” Tough assignment, but here’s what I came up with: In nudges and whispers. Like a seed growing, imperceptible at first. Like wind, invisible, refreshing, transformative. Like water, cleansing,…
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