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I have a new post on The Park Forum: “When’s the last time you visited a prisoner?” about the declining crime and murder rate in America and the subsequent increase in people behind bars.

I have a vivid memory of an argument about Lent from 4th grade. We were living in North Carolina, and my family (and their social circle, thus, most of the families I knew) attended an Episcopalian church. Observing Lent was a given. I asked my best friend at school, “What are you giving up for…

Community Service is a buzzword where I live, on the campus of a boarding school filled with students aspiring to Ivy League schools. They’re required to do it. It looks good on their college “brag” sheet. And, for the most part, they enjoy it. But I always wonder who they are serving. The students from…

Last week, I wrote about the differences between brokenness and limitation, a distinction that is common to us all. Two readers wrote back with their own experiences as friends with adults with Down syndrome. Both accounts demonstrate the complexities of these issues, and the need for humility before God when asking what it means–for ourselves…
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