I’ve been reading a lot of Flannery O’Connor recently, and I came across her thoughts (as a devout Roman Catholic) on birth control. In a letter to a friend, she writes: “The Church’s stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart,…

I have a new piece at her.meneutics, the Christianity Today blog. Regular readers of this blog will recognize some of the ideas, although it does contain new material as well. It begins: The word retarded has made the news lately. The Special Olympics designated March 3rd as a day of awareness about the hurtful and…

I met a Wycliffe Bible translator a few years ago. He described the cultural differences he encountered upon living on an island in the Philippines. In a community meeting, people argued vociferously and passionately against one another. The room seemed split almost down the middle on opposing sides. At the end of the debate, they…

We’re moving next year. Just for the year while Peter goes back to school. But it still means packing our things and finding new doctors and new friends and, most worrisome to me, a new school for Penny. So I went online and looked at the website for the school system where we’ll be living.…

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