A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband “Master” by Rachel Held Evans In a way, I think this book has been covered thoroughly already. People have reviewed it from every possible angle: positive, negative, and ridiculous. I am not going to write another…

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Steady isn’t very flashy and exciting. Steady is enduring and stable. It’s the straightaway. No loop-the-loops or corkscrews or stomach-in-your-throat drops. Just forward, and not very fast. I can be a bit of a thrill junkie. I love the adrenaline rush of being part of something new, something dramatic, something big and important. Having a…

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We didn’t plan it this way, but she reminded us that her school had a carnival on Saturday. She’d been looking forward to it all year. Not even a trip to her mamaw and papaw’s house could woo her away. So we made it an impromptu mother-daughter day. The boys went to romp with their…

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It’s 5:30am, and I’m sitting at my laptop in the corner of our family room. Coffee steams on the side table. My dog snores across the room. It is quiet. I have never been a morning person. I also didn’t need quiet the way I do now. Being a parent has driven me to seek…

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy (email, mobile, and RSS readers, click to view the video on my blog.) “We have a two-party system in government, and the idea is supposed to be that the two sides both come up with ways to confront and fix the real problems…

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My Facebook newsfeed gets nearly unbearable during a presidential election cycle. Many of my friends and I don’t even read it anymore, or we block our more extreme friends so we don’t have to see all the vitriol. This week, we decided to find the humor in all of the name-calling, gloom and doom predictions, and…

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