Thursday I caught, quite by accident since I don’t listen to “Christian” radio, Chuck Colson’s program “Break Point.” He was ranting in his trademark Colson-ish way about Apple’s decisions to pull the Manhattan Declaration iPhone app in December and the Exodus International app this month. Colson called for Christians to protest this decision by Apple,…

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If you’re like a lot of us, you’ve thought about the chemicals and preservatives in today’s products and wondered two things: should you try to find products with little or none of those ingredients? Can you afford more natural products? One of my blog advertisers,

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Does it mean anything to have no sense of God’s presence? David wrote about losing that sense. Why, LORD, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? (Psalm 10:1) So at the very least, it is not abnormal to feel that God is far, removed, hidden. Sometimes I wonder…

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It’s a sort-of wordless Wednesday today. As Bob Cratchit said in Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol,” we’ve been making rather merry. I thought I’d share some photo highlights. We partnered with our local school district to put on a benefit concert for the Find a Voice Fund, established in our daughter Elli’s memory. A barbershop…

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“All fear is but the notion that God’s love ends. Fear thinks God is finite and fear believes that there is not going to be enough and hasn’t counting one thousand gifts, endlessly counting gifts, exposed the lie at the heart of all fear? In God, blessings never end because God’s love for you never…

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Sunshine in March is watery and thin but oh so warm after weeks of the kind of gray cold that burrows into the cracks like the dirt between the planks of my oak floor. My seatbelt tucked low under my belly, baby dancing the “mommy drank her coffee today” boogie, we waved goodbye to our…

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