Faith and Doubt
What’s Wrong with the “Homeschooling Isn’t Missional” Argument
Thirty years ago, my parents pulled my younger sister and I out of the private Christian school where we were enrolled. My mom, a teacher by training, decided that my sister needed some focused one-on-one attention to master reading, writing, and arithmetic. Their plan was to put her back in school in a year or…
Read MoreDisabled Children Are NOT God’s Punishment
UPDATE: Please read this for additional information on the source of this story and several inaccuracies that I discovered as I did further research on it. *** According to WTOP news, a radio station in Virginia, and further reported on Right Wing Watch and Think Progress under the headline “Disabled Children are god’s punishment”: Western Prince…
Read MoreGossip, Accountability, and the Myth of Pastoral Infallibility
I recently read a series on gossip written by the pastor of a local church. In it, he defines gossip as “secret slander. Or as one lexicon defines it, gossip is ‘providing harmful information about a person, often spoken in whispers or in low voice, with the implication that such information is not widely known…
Read MoreWhat Are Blogging Trips with World Vision Really Like?
Have you ever wondered what a vision trip is like? I know I did before I went on one. I sat down to sketch out a typical day, but then I realized that doesn’t exist. Then I thought about setting this up like a choose-your-own-adventure book, but that is too complicated for this still jet-lagged…
Read MoreI Don’t Think It’s Just the Jet-lag Talking ~ Life:Unmasked
I’m [relatively] safe and sound at home, 8,000 miles from Sri Lanka, today. The time change has been rough, compounded by the 33 hours of travel to get home. My body keeps telling me to stop pulling all-nighters. It begins to shut down mid-afternoon in protest of the total routine inversion I’ve inflicted on it…
Read MoreDoes God Understand?
Their obvious otherness intimidated me. What must they think of my exposed hair, my short skirt over leggings, and my bright colors? Were they judging me? Maybe they were afraid I was judging them. Maybe they just didn’t know what to make of our fair skin. Maybe they were just curious, as we piled out…
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