I want to introduce you to Lizeth. She latched onto my Flip camera at the Special Needs Center where she is a student. Lizeth is just like my kids — figured out the camera’s buttons in about half a second. For the next half hour, she ran around recording everyone she could find, her bubbly…

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The bus bumped and bucked its way down the steep gravel road, navigated a turn off a bridge so tight I am sure our back tire lost contact with the road, and rolled to a stop halfway down the straw-strewn lane. Sheep grazed in a field to our right; to our left the ground dropped…

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I was so full of  nerves. I was about to meet 7 bloggers who I’ve read and admired from afar for some time now. I’ve even been nervous about interacting with them online since I had this idea that they were “bigger bloggers” (whatever that means) than I and might not be interested in talking…

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My eyes ache and my brain is so fuzzy that I think, “This must be what it’s like to be drunk.” It was half past midnight last night (this morning?) before I clicked off the little wire-necked light on my side of the bed. And then the alarm clock bashed into my dreams just five…

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Lady Jennie is living the dream — she married a real Frenchman and lives in France where she eats and cooks French food. And she writes the blog A Lady in France, so we can all live vicariously through her. Her food posts are divine torture, for which she was nominated as a BlogHer Voice…

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It is probably the most shocking statement you could make about the Bible — that God never promised an inerrant (without error in today’s scientific sense of the word) Bible.  The Chicago Statement says,”God has nowhere promised an inerrant transmission of Scripture.” To claim it does is to misrepresent  both God and the Bible. Or,…

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