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What Self-Harm and Passover Have in Common
This post contains graphic images. If you or someone you know are locking yourself in the bathroom and making little cuts on your sweet...
Apr 22, 20165 min read


Parenting Advice from Hell
(Update: This was written several years ago; I now have only one teenager left. And yes, the following is truer than ever.) This spring I...
Feb 7, 20163 min read


An Open Letter to Christian Movie Makers about Good Art
Dear Faith-based Movie Makers, Our church watched War Room last night. We served sheet pizzas and popcorn in a sanctuary lit only with...
Jan 7, 20163 min read


My Big Fat Church Makeover (On Accepting the “Unfinished”)
I surrender all I surrender all All the Thee my blessed Savior I surrender all The email said we had ten days to be out of the old, white...
Oct 21, 20153 min read


Did Jesus Go to Church?
Did Jesus (and His disciples, for that matter) go to church? Here's what my Bible says: “So continuing daily with one accord in the...
Aug 5, 20154 min read


The Only Relationship Question You Need to Ask–and Answer
Before my husband asked me to marry him, he took me to a beach in Florida and asked me fifty questions he had scribbled in a notebook. I...
Apr 21, 20152 min read
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