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A Purity Problem - in the lab and in the church
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (797+ words) I had ambitious plans for my summer research. My list was long, and I intended to conquer it. Instead, I spent the first weeks chasing something I couldn’t even see. Near the end of last summer, I stumbled onto some…...
The Lord Keep You: A Story of Faith, Refuge, and Unexpected Family
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (287+ words) Our Family Is Not a Tree by Laura Boonstra offers readers an important lesson in perspective. She invites us into a deeply vulnerable journey — one never intended for general consumption — until the brokenness and chaos of the world compelled her…...
The Mothers We Celebrate and The Ones We Don't See
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (467+ words) I’ve kept all the cards — the handwriting and spelling telling me what child and their age before I even turn it over to see the date. I’ve kept the art project gifts — the paper mache flowers, the popsicle stick bouquet....
The Joys & Challenges of Being Childfree
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (152+ words) Earlier this year, one of my favorite podcasts (Culture Study – amazingly interesting conversations on every topic under the sun) released an episode on “childless freaks.” Anne Helen Petersen, who is childfree by choice, was joined by comedian Natasha Vaynblat for…...
Her Brother Was Falling Apart—She Chose to Stay Anyway
4+ mon, 1+ day ago (92+ words) Kate Bowler offers some words in a prayer she’s titled, “for the ones who bear witness.” She says, “Blessed are the noticers…The witness-bearers. The story-holders. The ones who tiptoe to the edge right alongside us, knowing that the very…...
What Happened at the Critter Barn
4+ mon, 4+ day ago (506+ words) My time was my own and I could simply enjoy a day at the Critter Barn with my grandkids. I was basking in the glow of retirement – no more lesson plans, deadlines, grading papers or those dreaded self-studies. I had…...
Blood, Thunder, and the Furies of the Bible
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (458+ words) While having neither the bandwidth of a Cappadocian Father, nor the passion of a Tertullian, I would at least like to offer an oblique response to Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell’s engaging and provocative blog “Heresies I Have Loved: III.” I was raised…...
The Girl in the Picture
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (710+ words) The picture is my wife’s refugee picture, taken when Sy was five years old in the Ubon refugee camp, Thailand. On February 5, the forty-sixth anniversary of landing in Edgerton, Minnesota, she made it her profile picture on Facebook. But today,…...
We Need A Lot More Wonder and Silence
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (735+ words) Back in 1994, Fred Rogers noticed a subtle but significant shift stirring in the human soul. Long before push notifications and pocket-sized portals to the internet, he named a pattern forming beneath the surface of modern life. With pastoral gentleness and…...