When I first moved to California, I felt like a fish out of water. I had moved from New York City to begin graduate school …
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Joy in the Mourning
“I don’t know if I want kids,” I told my husband more than once. “I could live with or without them,” my phlegmatic husband would …
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The date was March 30, 2020. Our state governor had just issued a stay-at-home order. No more than 10 people were allowed to gather at …
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I’m not usually angry when I walk out of a doctor’s visit, but apparently there’s a first time for everything. You see, today was my …
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Born in 1946, I am a baby boomer. I was raised in an era where following the Golden Rule was the customary way to behave. …
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I must have walked up on a heated political discussion being held by a handful of salt-of-the-earth-looking kind of folks, although unmasked and not socially …
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Teenage boys can be the most loving people on earth sometimes. No. Really. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about love and kindness lately. …
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I’m temporarily living in a duplex we own in the small tourist town of Marietta, Ohio. After living 20 years in an old farmhouse surrounded …
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Jumping over couches, climbing trees and wrestling my siblings filled my childhood. I doubt I ever sat still. So as I marched into my teenage …
Read More »Does Your Church Love People?
This may sound like a dumb question to ask of a bunch of church people, but trust me, there are “Christians” who really aren’t fond …
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