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June 2012

June 11, 2012

A Matter of Acceptance or Ignorance?

There's this hill I climb on my morning walks. It's a graceful climb that...

June 10, 2012

A Viral Flesh-Eating Bacteria

Tim and I are fixing up a 33-year-old rocking chair. My mother gave it to...

June 08, 2012

You can’t change anything

He sat silent throughout the presentation and the dozens of hard questions that followed. Then...

June 07, 2012

Tate’s Abusive Tirade

I've published two books with mainstream publishers, one with an academic press, and two with...

June 06, 2012

You’re not the boss of me

(Editor's note) My friend Bert Montgomery (now a blogger for the HuffPo) has been urging me...

June 05, 2012

Satanic Hypocrite

He looked like Woody Allen with longer hair, albeit still balding on top. He...

June 04, 2012

Not to be rude, but…

Can we talk? I mean about something so personal you probably haven't divulged the truth...

June 04, 2012

Drinking Habits of a Younger Generation

It seems like everyone in my life drinks their breakfast. My daughters do it. My...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

A Safe Community

On clear days, like yesterday, Taylor sees Mt. Rainier on her afternoon drive home. My...

May 30, 2012

Up to Good

Ann Voskamp wrote a thoughtful piece about perspective. In it she states "God is...

May 29, 2012

Then and Now

I grew up during a time and place where the only blacks in the schools...

May 27, 2012

An Invitation of Honor

Several of my friends are headed to the White House. They are having breakfast with...

May 24, 2012

Memorial Day & the Mattress Man

I'm in Portland for a book event tonight (Thursday) at Powell's bookstore (7 p.m. Cedar...

May 23, 2012

Doing the Ugly Cry

Ms. Terry wants everybody to know one thing: "I may not be the happiest person...

May 22, 2012

A Poetic Conspiracy

So I have this beautiful neice. Taylor. You know a girl is beautiful when she...

May 21, 2012

The Redneck & the Owlet

That's my friend Swede upon that ladder rigging up a redneck fix to a very...

May 20, 2012

Love Wins but at what cost?

I worry about The Marine sometimes. He would scoff at me for that, so...

May 18, 2012

Time for the Church to step up

It never fails. Every time I speak before any group about A SILENCE OF...

May 14, 2012

Two Sides of Creation

This is the place where my mother creates. Had she been born...

May 13, 2012

Raised by Lousy Moms

Dolores Aguilar 1929 – Aug. 7, 2008 Dolores Aguilar, born in 1929 in New Mexico,...

May 12, 2012

When Children set the Example

Editor's Note: Traveling back across country today. Today's guest post is from the lovely Renea...

May 10, 2012

Fifty Shades of Grey: Masturbation of the Mind

The young prosecuting attorney called me into his office. "Take a look at these," he...

May 08, 2012

This one is for you, Katie Couric

I heard the story first from Loretta. She's the gal that invited me to Cullman,...

May 06, 2012

Half-Baked Mama

Let's all agree...

May 04, 2012

Ann Voskamp speaks out for Silence…

Thank you, Ann Voskamp for this ... A Silence of Mockingbirds Karen Zacharias is...

May 02, 2012

The Whys and Whats of God

Her boy was 14 when he was killed in an accident. He grabbed for a...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

Killing the arts

Editor's Note: So y'all I'm in Hartsville, S.C. where Burry Bookstore has joined with Durant's...

April 29, 2012

The Amish Porn Dilemma

This was an actual exchange between a reader/fan and a Christian bookseller: Reader: "I wanted...

April 26, 2012

Grace & Poetry

You need to know how God-infused this journey has been. I arrived at WAMU...

April 24, 2012

The Love Plummet

Editor's Note: I met Rebekah Sanderlin in North Carolina. A journalist and a military wife,...

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