Monthly Archives: October 2011
It’s Halloween, y’all!
And in honor of Halloween, I’m re-posting what I wrote last year, “Why I believe in Halloween.“ Though I was raised evangelical and can speak Christianese with the best of them, I doubt I’m anyone’s Evangelical Mother of the … Continue reading
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Snow piled
We wake up to snow piled on the outdoor table, still parked where it sat all summer. We were not prepared for this: two inches stuck on green leaves, quivering out of concerned trees. They weren’t prepared either. “Mama, does … Continue reading
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College Thankful
Welcome to Thankful Tuesday on a Thursday. I hope that’s not terribly confusing. I spent the weekend at my college’s Homecoming for my ten-year reunion. Now, let me explain something to you. I did not go to a school known … Continue reading
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Just a Stay at Home Mom (how liberation frees me to love my non-job)
We interrupt our regularly scheduled Thankful Tuesday to bring you my most recent guest post at Her.meneutics (the women’s blog for Christianity Today.) I am a product of the Second Wave Feminism of the 60s. By the time I was a child … Continue reading
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Just Write: The Miracle
You’re up at 5 am. They call this “sleeping through the night.” I groan and meet you in our secret place: dark room, soft carpet, a rocking chair in the corner. The glow of nightlight feels sacred when I’m here, … Continue reading
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‘The Evangelical Rejection of Reason’
If you haven’t yet read Monday’s op-ed piece in The New York Times, now is your chance. Karl W. Giberson and Randall J. Stephens, both professors at Easter Nazarene College, write with conviction, honesty and fairness toward the anti-intellectualism of … Continue reading
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Milk, Pumpkins and Neighbors: A Thankful Tuesday List
My baby learning how to sign “milk” (his arm goes straight up in the air and then he squeezes his hand open and shut…it’s the cutest thing ever) just in time for his 7-month birthday! His “milk milk milk milk” … Continue reading
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Making Peace with Distance
I’ve been far away for a long time. I used to think of Distance as being the space from here to home. But then “home” changed. It became separate places, so far from one another that my finite body could … Continue reading
Filed under Place and Stability
