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Bewithus
I found this ornament in among the cd’s today as I was rooting around: a wooden angel with a broad smile, apparent fish hooks on the wings, and a simple prayer scrawled as…
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Reading Journal: UnChristian
I’m finding much to provoke reflection in UnChristian, which I was prompted to read after registering the communication breakdown between generations in the debate over A Year of Biblical Womanhood. My plan is…
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Scratching the surface
There is so much mystery. The girls and I visited Ithaca’s Museum of the Earth today. We saw any number of amazing fossils, found and identified some of our own with the help…
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Advent
Amy has me thinking about Advent, and realizing that I haven’t planned a thing. But as I reflect, there are some things we will do that fall into the category of automatic —…
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A Year of Biblical Womanhood
By now you’ll have heard about Rachel Held Evans’ A Year of Biblical Womanhood. It represents the author’s attempt to take literally every instruction to women in the Bible, in both Old and…
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How to listen
My feelings toward homeschooling have been all over the map lately. I feel restless. It’s odd that I recently reaffirmed my sense that my full-time job right now is being a mother and…
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Two views
From A Year of Biblical Womanhood, by Rachel Held Evans: Tamar joins a storied troupe of crafty and courageous women who used trickery, sexuality, and manipulation to work the patriarchal system to which…
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Adam: The Untold Story
“This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way.” So begins Mark Twain’s version of the diary of the first man. I must have downloaded Extracts from Adam’s…
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Open-handed
One day, something fell from the sky. Xi had never seen anything like this in his life. It looked like water, but it was harder than anything else in the world. He wondered…
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Morning Reflections
This morning I went for an early morning walk. This young red-tailed hawk was perched in a tree beside the road, and it was easy to spot. The morning sun struck its white…