aka: How To Blog Without Destroying Relationships and Being Excommunicated photo © 2008 Aaron & Alli Merrell | more info (via: Wylio) It was bound to happen. You can’t do anything for five years and not screw up, and blogs are no exception, especially when you write about faith and family, as I do. I’ve…

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photo © 2009 Sarah | more info (via: Wylio) I am delighted to feature some new bloggers on my site this month. I found Heather’s site, Raining Silence, a few months ago and immediately fell in love with her poetry. Her words overflow from a heart that wrestles with the competing loves of God, self,…

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Sword of the Lord Book Review The short version of my review of “The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family” is up on Deeper Story today. We created a group review there, so you’ll also find several other reviews. I really enjoyed reading the other reviews — we didn’t…

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I’ve decided to add book reviews as a regular feature here at Joy in This Journey. That said, I’m a novice. I have only written a handful of them, here (on grief), here (first review of fiction), here (on talking about pain in Christianity), and here (on prayer), so I don’t really know how to…

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Did you notice that Joy in This Journey has two new sponsors in the left sidebar? I am very excited — their contributions help cover my hosting costs (websites aren’t free) and travel expenses for The Relevant Conference. I am thrilled to support each of these home-based or small businesses. I’m not a salesperson, and…

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Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. This is the Jesus Prayer, known and prayed most commonly in the Orthodox Church (though as one monk in the book points out, Jesus doesn’t pray this prayer — we pray this prayer to Jesus.) It’s very like the prayer of the tax…

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