Christianity
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Friends or foes?
A hot discussion topic this week in my home school email group has been a “Drag Queen Story Hour” scheduled at a local public library. I say “discussion,” but there is little actual…
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Thou shalt not podcast, huh?
Christianity Today has an opinion piece on How podcasting hurts preaching: sermons belong in church, not in our earbuds. It certainly raises questions. For instance, the author of this article seems to have…
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The Benedict Option
It’s taken me quite awhile to read this book — over a month. This is partly because it got off to a slow start. If I were to reread it, I’d start with…
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Reading Musings
Out of Sorts is my first read by blogger Sarah Bessey. The book details her efforts to reconcile the different parts of her experiences with church. Though she does not go into detail…
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Always ahead of culture
Deep down, though, these extra rules for women became a subtle reinforcement of the self-condemning framework I already lived in. Every time I had to remind myself not to look someone in the…
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Recent Reads: A Schmidt-fest and a memoir
After enjoying the Wednesday Wars, I forged ahead to Okay for Now, Gary D. Schmidt’s companion book written from the perspective of the Wednesday Wars’ narrator’s classmate. Doug Swieteck is a different kind…
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Mere Christianity
Somehow, I’ve never been able to read this book before. I’ve tried a few times but never gotten beyond the first few pages. Recently I tried again with the help of an audiobook…
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“Middle age” and church
I routinely struggle to understand my feelings toward church. This week, as the girls and I read The Screwtape Letters together, I hear the senior devil’s advice on how to tempt Christians away…
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The Listening Life
There are several great reviews of this book around, including this one that convinced me I wanted to read it. Ironically, I believe it was the idea of a listening God that interested…
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On silence
Although we are tempted in times of agonizing silence to think of God with an icy stare on his face, refusing to make eye contact, I have found it comforting to think of…