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Peter and I, like many Americans, have talked a lot about Haiti recently. We’ve wondered what we can do to help. And the answer is pretty obvious: pray, and give money. The prayer part I know how to do (which doesn’t mean I’m particularly faithful in doing it). The money part is a little more…

There’s this verse in the book of Galatians that always catches me off guard. It comes in chapter two, after Paul has explained that he is going to preach about Jesus to the Gentiles, and the apostles in Jerusalem will take the same message to the Jews. Then Paul writes, “All they asked was that…

I read an interesting article in the Washington Post earlier this week about the various influences upon President Obama. I posted some thoughts on it on the Park Forum: “President Obama’s Influences: Stories and Statistics.”

I wrote a post here over the summer that received a lot of comments, so I turned it into an essay that has been published at Divine Caroline (which, I must add, has a pretty low bar for publishing, but I thought it might get a different audience to read this essay). The essay begins:…

Three snapshots of life in our household: One: Yesterday morning, Peter finds Penny and William in the playroom. William in a chair, Penny facing him, sitting on his lap and coloring his face. Yes. His face. She’d already finished his head, neck, and clothing. He’d done a number on her hands, nose, and left cheek.…

I have a new post on the Park Forum: Are Christians Wimps? talking about the relationship between power and corruption. Is it possible to be powerful without feeling entitled to power and without becoming corrupt? I hope so. Seems to me the only way it can happen is through an accurate sense of oneself as…

Some of you will remember this article from two years back, when I was pregnant from William and had an editorial published first for First Things and then the Philadelphia Inquirer. But in case you haven’t read it before, here it is again: “All of Life is Fragile and Uncertain“, published this time on a…

I dropped Penny off at school this morning, and a mom of another little girl in her class pulled me aside. “Alli insisted on wearing sunglasses this morning because she wanted to be like Penny.” I turn around and there’s Alli (not her real name), in her raincoat and hat and boots, on this gray…

I have a new post on Christianity Today’s Women’s Blog: Iris Robinson Jesus Loves You More Than You Will Know.

And now a few more thoughts… The important thing about memoir in general is that it not be simply a chronicle of events, but rather a story telling a larger truth. So, for instance, on the surface, Penelope Ayers is the story of my mother-in-law dying of cancer. Which is a rather mundane experience, and…
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