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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…

The first time I was pregnant, I loved it. Even though we were living in Rome in 95 degree heat with no air conditioner. Even though I had a headache every day. Even though Italians don’t seem to believe in maternity clothes. I loved the way my body expanded. I loved looking, feeling, being pregnant.…

TIME’s cover article this week, “Afghan Women and the Return of the Taliban,” quotes an official who talks about the Afghan government’s willingness to concede women’s rights in exchange for a truce of sorts with the Taliban. According to Tom Malinowski, the Washington advocacy director for Human Rights Watch, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, “essentially asked…

The older I’ve gotten, the scarier the word sin has become. Some of that has been my growing understanding that this Christian concept of sin is a complicated one. But some of my fear over the word sin is because I just don’t like the idea that I, and everyone else I know, are in…

Krista Tippett, host of “Speaking of Faith” has an article (“My Grandfather’s Faith“) in this month’s Christian Century. She writes, “For whether or not Muslims will go to heaven remains a real question in Southern Baptist belief and many other forms of Christianity. But in a place just as doctrinaire, compassion for the stranger, the…

  A friend gave me a subscription to Parents Magazine before our daughter Penny was born. I remember the headline of an article that arrived when she was six weeks old: “Will Your Child Be Tall? Athletic? Intelligent?” I answered, “No. No. And no.” I threw the magazine away. Some good came of my mistaken…

I had a lovely trip to Atlanta last weekend, giving me lots of time to read. Some of the highlights included: The cover article of The Economist: Why America Locks Up Too Many People. This article gives an overview of the ever-growing US prison population and argues for the injustice of the system, both to…
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