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Last fall, an old friend and I spent a weekend together. We talked about everything–kids,faith, birthday parties and school and church. But at the end of the weekend, my friend asked, “Do you always live in this place?” “What place?” “This place –talking about intellectual things all the time?” Hmm. Well, yes, I guess I…

I have a new post on Her.meneutics called “Eliminating Suffering or Eliminating People: When Genetic Testing Threatens our Common Humanity.” It begins: Imagine sitting in a doctor’s office and receiving this news: Good morning, Mrs. Santos. I have the results of the screening test you had last week, 12 weeks into your pregnancy. The test…

My old friend Stefan Lanfer has a new review and reflection on Penelope Ayers. On his blog, dadtoday, he discusses parents and children, dying and new life in a new post called Storytime. An excerpt: Reading it, I was struck that this particular phase of life is not so unlike that of becoming a parent…

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…

I have a new post on The Park Forum: Wine, Beer, Shots, and the Spirit.

As you may have noticed, there is now a logo on this page for the “CC blogs” network. CC stands for Christian Century, which has a site of recommended blogs about theology. Recently, they posted a roundup of posts about Ash Wednesday. If you’re interested in more reading about Lent, go to “Ash Wednesday Around…

I was recently asked to reflect upon the question, “Who/what is God?” in 100 words or less. It took me longer to write those 100 words than it would if I’d been given 1000! They’ve been published on a new religion and spirituality website, patheos.com. I’ll give you my response below, but to read the…
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