Faith and Doubt
I Don’t Love You But I Always Will
The girls chant “Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber” while the boys writhe and moan and cover their ears, loving to hate the current teen idol. My son memorizes songs by Taio Cruz , while my daughter Googles and prints photos of Taylor Swift and replays that one song about Romeo and Juliet every day,…
Read MoreGet Naked: The Most Important Writing Advice You Will Ever Read
Ok, that might be a little bit of hyperbole. But as we close out the year, I want to share the most important writing advice I’ve ever run across. It is at the heart of the weekly blogging meme I started in 2011 called life:unmasked (link up your unmasked posts here every Wednesday!). It is the heart…
Read MoreGod, Grief, Child Killers, and Second Chances
From July 30-August 7 I traveled to Bolivia with a team of bloggers and staff from World Vision. This trip was like childbirth. I’ve been pregnant with a less-cerebral-more-active faith, but that faith was finally delivered on a dirt path among the poorest of the world’s poor. This newborn faith is transforming my perspective on…
Read MoreSemantics and Shipwrecks of Faith: Is the Bible Truly Inerrant?
I’m currently featuring my favorite posts from 2011. In July I wrote a series of posts on the evangelical church’s claims about the Bible and the effect those claims can have on a person’s faith once they start examining closely. This issue is near and dear to me as it has been pivotal in my…
Read MoreMy Christmas Card to You
This is one of my favorite Christmas hymns, and one of my favorite versions of it. Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate it. In the bleak midwinter, frost wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, in the bleak midwinter,…
Read MoreIt’s Now or Never – In Which Bon Jovi and King Solomon Agree
I read through the Bible in 90 days this summer, which was an incredible experience that I highly recommend. One of the things that leaped off the pages was how important charity and action (not just words) is to God. This post delves into why we hesitate to take the action God requires of us.…
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