As I’ve watched the Pat Robertson train wreck get worse and worse over the past few years, I’ve marveled at the way humans are drawn to caricatures.  That’s what Robertson is – he’s a warped caricature of a thoughtful wise Christian leader. His foolish hurtful very-un-Christian pronouncements receive massive media coverage and widespread rebuttal from…

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Christians in my circles often wrestle with what to do with Halloween — it is a harmless dress-up night or a celebration of the Devil? Should we participate or separate? Joy asked me to edit and repost my thoughts on Christians and Halloween, as she was too busy with sick kids to post. What are…

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“Where did you get that fire in your belly, Joy Bennett?” he asked, amazed. “God gave it to me,” I retorted, passion still flaming over the issue we’d been discussing for the past few hours. He laughed, and I did too, but we both knew I was serious. A few weeks later, I spoke in…

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I’ve always pictured time as a line, with me an unchanging dot moving from moment to moment from birth on one end to death at the other. I have an almost visceral reaction to thinking of time, and myself within it, like this. In this model, I am static. The dot that is me remains…

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What’s a girl worth? Some say that it depends on your theology of men and women. People in Christianity typically divide into two camps, one (complementarians) that teaches that women and men have separate roles and that men are to lead women, and one (egalitarians) that teaches that men and women are equals and should…

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The fog flowed between the hilltops like ocean foam surrounding a sand castle. Our bus weaved around green contours and as I leaned out to see where the road led, sure enough, the crease in the hillside leaned down under the blinding cotton. I’m a flatland-dweller. I can’t climb out of a fog bank without…

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