What if everyone agreed with me? I've been asking myself that question a lot the past few days. Or should I say daydreaming about it, because that's really what it amounts...
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Last week I attended a writers conference in Grand Rapids that--due to no fault of its own--I had been dreading for weeks. The conference itself is fantastic, but I have...
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Last month a friend of mine posted this as his Facebook status: "It's not even the 2016 election yet, and unfriend season is already in full swing. How did we...
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I have put off writing this post for awhile, because I was a little embarrassed to share it. It's one of those lessons that I should have learned in high...
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A few months ago, Ike and I added a new parenting milestone to our resumé: we were sick at the same time. Maybe "milestone" isn't the right word--the experience was...
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When I was about 25 years old I spent a summer working as a hospital chaplain. It was a hard job, to say the least. Every day I was confronted...
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"Once you label me, you negate me." - Soren Kierkegaard This week I spent some time with a group of women I didn’t know very well. Some I didn’t know...
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During my twenties my parents used to joke that I would always have a crisis when they were on vacation. When I was single, that certainly seemed to be the...
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In the last several months, Sovereign Grace Ministries, a network of Reformed churches, has been in the news as the result of a sexual abuse scandal and allegations of a...
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Community can be so elusive, can't it? I didn't fully understand the rareness of true, heart friends until I moved away from North Carolina 2 years ago. Starting over is...
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