This is part two – have you read part one yet? It’s ok — go ahead. I’ll wait. We have four children. Our oldest child, Elli, was born with a severely deformed heart, which stopped beating when she was 4 days old. She defied the odds and survived that day, as well as four open-heart…

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As I was skimming the comments on the article, “Does the Bible Mandate Home School?” I ran into this sentence. This is one “gray” area in which we simply cannot allow ourselves to try to bind the consciences of other Christians. [emphasis mine] I’ve been struggling in my mind to describe what happens when someone…

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I grew up in a Christian home with two parents who loved God and love each other. I asked Jesus into my heart when I was 3 and asked to be baptized when I was 5 or 6. I attended Christian schools for a few years, then was home-schooled through high-school, back before it was…

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While Mark Driscoll quietly removed his offensive post about “anatomically-male effeminate worship leaders” from his Facebook page, he has issued no apology or admission of error. {Edited at 5pm EDT to add the following:} Finally this afternoon, Mark posted a statement regarding his Facebook and Twitter behavior, admitting he didn’t handle it well. While I’m…

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Conservative evangelical Christians like to talk about “the infallible Word of God,” and how the Bible has authority over everyone and everything. If you ask an evangelical Protestant about the Bible, you’ll hear words like “inerrant” and “infallible” and “certainty” and “authority of Scripture” and “sufficient for everything.” They also tend to be all-or-nothing” about…

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The days fade sepia and two-dimensional as the relentless rhythm of keeping five people alive drains me dry. I find myself staring unseeing, trudging numb, shoulders braced hard against lists and calendar squares. my only goal to collapse on my pillow at the end. I lose the big picture in the running kids to lessons,…

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