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The Hand of God is Like a Summer Storm
We’ve hit real summer weather here in Tennessee, which means it’s nearing 100 degrees and 90 percent humidity each day, with a 50% chance of thunderstorms during every daylight hour. The air is...
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Catching Light
I have a problem that all of my friends know far too well. I cannot keep happy secrets. “Real secrets”, as I call them, I’ll hold onto forever. No worries about your deep-dark-secrets getting sold...
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For When It’s Too Hard
I teach children who speak incredibly limited English and also have incredibly limited educational backgrounds. There’s a lot of reasons that this is hilarious and fun and rewarding and important...
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Love Warrior: A Book Review
I’ve loved Glennon Doyle Melton from her blog and facebook updates through her first book, and had been eagerly awaiting this most recent book for months. I finished it in two days (and y’all, it’s...
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Love Isn’t a Sure Thing
I got my engagement ring resized this week by a funny little man in an office building downtown. I stepped out of the elevator and there he was- in a tiny cubicle with welding goggles on, and he...
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Women of Advent: This time I will praise the Lord
This post, and the rest of the series, originally appeared on my blog three years ago when it was in a different space. I’m editing and reposting them this year as a reminder that we are not the only...
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The Women of Advent: Peace and Prophecy
This advent, I am posting about the women of advent- the women who waited with longing and expectation for what they could not see or understand. Last week I wrote about Leah and her abiding hope....
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Lost Cause
I was never one of those kids who threatened to run away from home. Don’t get me wrong, I was not the perfect child; at around age 3 I realize that I could scream at the pitch that the alarm system...
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The Parable of the Wedding Feast: A Modern Retelling
It’s been a hard week to be an evangelical. Really, it’s been a hard year. It’s hard to see so many churches in America aligning themselves politically with discrimination, homophobia, sexism, and...
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A Belated Christmas Reflection
Two years ago, I taught a Sunday school class to the preschoolers at my church that was meant to walk them through the narrative of the Old Testament over the course of a year. Of course, what that...
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