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June 2015

June 13, 2015

On a Difficult Anniversary, Making Room for the Better Stories

I will always remember that terrible June day in 2009. But I’ve reached a point...

May 2015

May 22, 2015

When Love Outlasts Death: Janis Heaphy Durham’s “The Hand on the Mirror”

While many Christians see paranormal activity as a threat to orthodoxy, surely those of us...

May 07, 2015

How Technology Has—and Hasn’t—Changed the Experience of Having a Baby

What has changed since I had my first baby is that the divide between public...

May 06, 2015

Church is for Misfits

As people aligned with a God who promises to do new things among us, to...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

What It Means to Belong to a Church

When we moved from D.C. to Connecticut, we hoped to find a new community that...

April 22, 2015

“Why don’t you just adopt?” is the wrong question to ask infertile couples. Here’s why.

Besides making people feel defensive for experiencing the fundamentally human urge to conceive and bear...

April 07, 2015

A Blog Series on Contraception Illustrates What’s Broken in the Blogosphere…and How We Might Begin to Fix It

If we wish to nurture writing that helps us ask and grapple with answers to...

April 02, 2015

Easter is an Invitation to Believe the Better Story

Without the bright light of the resurrection, I would always believe the sadder stories. They...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

Why We Need the Resurrection

The resurrection isn't so much something that we believe in, or don't. The resurrection is...

March 26, 2015

Natural Family Planning Isn’t the Only Ethical Option for Christians: Why I Chose an IUD

As I cradled my third newborn in his first hours of life, I was seized...

March 18, 2015

Why “What Would Jesus Do?” Isn’t Exactly the Right Question

In college, my favorite professor assigned Charles Sheldon's 1896 classic In His Steps when we...

March 16, 2015

Finding Common Ground on Abortion: An Interview with Charles Camosy

Guest post by Karen Swallow Prior Note from EPD: This is the transcript of an...

March 04, 2015

Remembering One of My “Cloud of Witnesses”

My "cloud of witnesses"—people whose stories have influenced my life, shown me what is important...

March 02, 2015

I Have Three Things to Say About “The Dress”

A viral social media phenomenon that helps us understand just how fundamental and deep our...

February 2015

February 19, 2015

Believing with Our Bodies

I go back to the paradox that our bodies both betray us and reflect our...

February 09, 2015

Why Even the Smallest Good Work is Worth Doing

Jesus showed us how even small acts of care are multiplied in God's economy, so...

February 06, 2015

Why I Believe Native American Mascots Should Go

My husband and I are fans of Washington, D.C.'s football team, which means we (especially...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

The Perfect Pair of Boots and the Essential Work of Parenting

I wonder if, as our children grow and their increasingly complicated needs outgrow our capacities...

January 20, 2015

Surviving January with Help from the Danes, the Japanese, and Jesus

On whom can we pin the blame for January, I wonder? It doesn't seem quite...

December 2014

December 30, 2014

14 Blog Posts from 2014 That You Need to Read

These are the posts written in 2014 for which I had immediate recall because they...

December 29, 2014

On Assisted Suicide and Chronic Pain, Sex and Prayer, DNA and Ice Buckets: Top 10 Posts of 2014

The 10 most-read blog posts of 2014—a list that provides a good snapshot of topics...

December 23, 2014

Is There a Right Way to Celebrate Christmas?

Christmas. It's such a mixed bag, isn't it? I'm an unapologetic lover of all things...

December 19, 2014

Let’s Stop Bashing These Christmas Traditions

I’m all for trashing traditions that give us only glitz, gluttony, and maxed-out credit cards....

December 17, 2014

Feel Like Everyone Wants a Piece of You?: A Guide for More Wholehearted Living for Moms

The core message of Wholehearted Living is that while our families and responsibilities will sometimes...

December 16, 2014

How Much is Too Much for Holiday Giving to Kids?

Three perspectives on why holiday gifts and giving traditions need to be thoughtful, meaningful, and...

December 08, 2014

All Good Things (& Christmas Trees) Come to An End

The sight of a Christmas tree strapped onto a car roof awakens all kinds of...

December 03, 2014

On Doing Advent Wrong (or Maybe, Just Right)

Christmas is about the material illuminating the immaterial, about intangible spiritual truths being revealed through...

November 2014

November 21, 2014

On Three-Parent IVF and the Act of Begetting

Every few months, a story pops up about a new frontier in reproductive medical technologies:...

November 18, 2014

Not All Pain is Gain

Not all pain is gain. Pain is not always fixable. This is the truth. But...

November 07, 2014

Revelation on an Ordinary Wednesday

(This post is a departure for me, more of a creative semi-autobiographical vignette, perhaps even...