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Stay in It: The Un-Ministry of Love in the Time of Locker Room Talk
Trump and Hilary bobble their heads, and my laundry needs folding. I have appointments to keep and kids to feed. My life is small, and we have dark days, but I can tell you what I know while you’re...
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What do you taste?
Church, I’m sure you’ll understand. I do what I don’t aim to do, and I don’t do what I aim to. I came here today typing with one finger, because chocolate is smeared on my others. Here in a second,...
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When There’s a Lion in Your Yard
This week Seth and I celebrated our 17th anniversary right as the leaves turned electric. It was as beautiful as the day we were wed. But today the temperature will drop a few degrees every hour until...
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My True Love Gave To Me: A Vision of Women
On the last day of Christmas, my True Love gave to me a beautiful vision of women. This is, of course, a vision of women across the world but more specifically of the women in my flesh-and-blood life,...
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What’s Up: New Year and a New Plan
Last night the sky was a flowing and molten pink behind the black hills, and I said, “Titus, look out back! Look at the sky!” And they all four got up, gasping whoa. Titus said, “I’ve never seen that!...
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Soul Practices, Part 1: An Introduction
I’ve never known a world without his hat. There’s a photo of me as a two-year old girl in my daddy’s tall cowboy boots and this big felt hat. I remember when it was crispy and a sleeker, newer brown....
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When We All Speak a Foreign Language
Because I’m grateful to be able to see a contrast between the Kingdom of David and the Kingdom of Pharaoh, I suggest to you that today is a day we bend our necks up toward Pharaoh’s podium and see it...
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Soul Practices: Part 2
Here’s what I know, once in a while at church I get to be the cupbearer. The priest gives me the bread and says, “This is the body, broken for you.” And I ingest it, and I imagine Christ’s body...
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Communion with Depression
I’m going to be honest with you about this. You shouldn’t be reading this post here for free. It should be tucked into the slick pages of a renowned journal of creative nonfiction. Hilary Yancey’s...
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Under the Fig: On Awakening A response to Psalm 57:1-11 and John 1:43-51 It wasn’t just the fig tree that told me the meaning of shame. It wasn’t only when Adam and Eve ate the fruit and woke up to...
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