What Are You Fighting For?

Today we remember those who’ve fought for us in the United States military. They knew and know what they were or are fighting for: their country, its freedom and prosperity. Their mission is clear, and how valiantly they’ve completed it. It makes me wonder: what am I fighting for? We fight every day. We fight…

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Christian Art: Should It Be Any Different from Plain Old Art?

The angles of this questions, the directions it’s capable of going, the conclusions it carves avenues to are endless. So endless, I feel a bit overwhelmed, so I’ll limit myself to describing one particular encounter I’ve had with the debate. I’ll also talk more specifically about literature because it’s the art I’ve studied most and…

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Have You Grown this Year?

Curve ball. This is typically asked at the end of the calendar year but because this month marks the end of a series my community group at church has been doing, our group leaders are asking us to be prepared to answer this question this week when we meet and because it’s being asked of…

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How Do You Rediscover Your Creativity?

For many of my earlier years I believed each of my stuffed animals was alive. Every time I left the room they huddled around my miniature tea set drinking and chatting. I tried to tell myself they weren’t real, but I couldn’t help it. My imagination overpowered my practicality. Maybe this sounds like I was…

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Is Death the Only Path to Peace?

My planned blog post for this morning has been postponed for another time. I will instead talk about what everyone else is: the new of the death of Osama Bin Laden. For an hour last night, my eyes did not leave my television screen—as I’m sure yours didn’t either. When someone says the president has…

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How Much Does Our Faith Depend on Our Pastor's?

What if you went to church next weekend, sat in your usual spot, sang along to worship songs with the usual worship team, watched the pulpit expectantly as your usual pastor took his place to face the crowd and then instead of uttering the usual sermon, admitted that he now found it impossible to believe…

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When and How Much Should You Invest in People?

A question inspired by this weekend’s events in which I found myself in an unfamiliar setting with many unfamiliar faces. I volunteered at Young Life camp family weekend. My job along with several other girls about my age was to care for toddlers while their parents attended seminars and worship services. I was a last-minute…

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Does Love Win?

Here I go. Watch me. I’m jumping onto the Love Wins Commentators Bandwagon. I have finished this media-frenzied, supposedly polarizing book and am now slyly inserting my review into a question-shaped post. And after I’ve said my peace, we can all stop talking about this whole Rob Bell/Love Wins thing. It is what they’ve all been saying:…

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At What Age are You Grown Up?

Asking the hard questions has resulted in some heavy posts. See here, here, and here. We all need to take a deep breath, through the nose out through the mouth. Heavy posts are exhausting for the reader and the writer. I don’t want to be theological today or talk about heartache or God’s will for…

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