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Recognizing the Babe as Christ
From Epiphany to Lent, how do we see Jesus in Ordinary Time? “What do you wonder?” I ask my seven-year-old after I’ve read aloud the Bible story of the presentation of Jesus at the temple. This is the...
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How Marriage Has Brought Back the Word Sin
How learning to walk in the ways of God helps us practice walking away from sin. I had little to do with the word sin for a long time. I grew up with the definition of sin as “missing the mark.” It’s a...
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The Benedict Option: An Interview with Rod Dreher
Rod Dreher talks about Benedictine spirituality, the need for shared liturgy to build unshakable beliefs, and how to break out of a consumerist mindset toward church. Even if you’re fasting from...
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Yours Are the Eyes of Jesus
The good news of Christ’s ascension is Pentecost: the Holy Spirit lighting the eyes of all of Jesus’ disciples with his burning love—both to see and to be seen. It’s still Easter. On the mantel hangs...
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What It Means to Be One Body in Marriage: The Ordering of Desires
Being one in marriage is hard, but, “There is healing, much healing, in being vulnerable and accepted by another…” “My other half.” This phrase, and the image it evokes, assumes that one is...
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Dear Daughter, I Want You to Fail
In the end, by being weak, you are going to be strong. It takes strength to say, “I need help on this.” Dear Daughter, “Don’t hold her back,” your eye doctor told us after your first surgery for...
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Of Venting and Drawing Near to God
If You Want to Have Intimacy with God, Start Venting So Moses asked the Lord, “Why have you brought such trouble on your servant? Why are you angry with me, and why do you burden me with all these...
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What Lavish Love is This?
God’s Lavish Love. . .Even for Those You Don’t Like Lavish. This is the word that comes to mind as I read the beginning of a Christmas sermon preached by Saint Jerome (340-420 A.D.). God’s love is...
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Psalms of Praise
Interview with the author and the illustrator of Psalms of Praise: A Movement Primer, another Baby Believer Book My second time interviewing author Danielle Hitchen and illustrator Jessica Blanchard...
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Growing with the Psalms
I was stymied at first. When preschool age, my kids had responded well to Marie-Helene Delval’s brief texts and Arno’s colorful illustrations in Psalms for Young Children. They danced afterwards to a...
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