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We drove to Maryland and back yesterday for our fourth annual Danish Christmas celebration (Peter’s family on his dad’s side is Danish). Six hours in the car, three of which included steady rain. Two children who skipped naps (although as a result they were blissfully asleep at 6 pm in the back seat). 400 miles…

A Catholic friend of mine texted me earlier in the week to remind me it was the “Feast of the Immaculate Conception.” Her message read: “Think about how her (Mary’s) yes shaped our faith.” I don’t spend much time thinking about Mary, and I suspect this lack of attention is my loss. Nonetheless, I thought…

New Post on The Park Forum: “The Moral Mess of Abortion”

I had the chance to speak with two high school creative writing classes yesterday. I read portions of Penelope Ayers and they asked questions–How did you decide to make this story public? How many times did you rewrite the opening chapters? (And by the way, the answer there is somewhere between 30 and 50, I…

Matthew 1:23, quoting from the prophet Isaiah: “The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means, ‘God with us’.” God didn’t advertise His love and presence for us by billboards in the sky. Instead, he came down and lived among us in the…

In case you’re just tuning in, this post is part of a series based on talks I gave a few weeks back. It’s picking up on the idea that if we, as humans, are to know of God’s existence, it is up to God to let us know: If I were God, how would I…

Two follow up thoughts on the previous post. One, driving up I-95 with two screaming children on Thursday night made me wonder whether I was delusional in writing about the joy of having children. Of course, what I wrote about was the joy that comes in self-sacrifice, and the drive wasn’t exactly self-sacrificial (we were…

New post on the Park Forum: Mammograms and Mortality

I’ve been thinking recently of the idea that Christians are called to self-sacrificial love, to carry our cross, etc. And I look at my life and wonder–do I do this? On some level, I’m sure the answer is no. But on another level, yes. I just don’t think of it as self-sacrifice. When William cries…

New post on the Park Forum: Pop Culture and Jesus
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