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December 2012

December 25, 2012

And then they partied..

Merry Christmas.

December 24, 2012

The Gift of Christmas

The men are all gathered around the TV. Daughter Shelby is hanging out with friends...

December 22, 2012

I Live with Adam Lanza

Editor's note: The following guest post was written by someone who wanted their privacy protected...

December 21, 2012

Poppies for Sandy Hook

Editor's Note: A year ago, I asked my mother to paint me a picture of...

December 20, 2012

I wish the Mayans were right

For the past four months it has felt like somebody pushed my head underwater into...

December 19, 2012

Friday changed everything

This gun issue is President Obama's Lincoln moment. We are a nation divided ......

December 18, 2012

Shaming God: Embarrassing Evangelicals

Sometimes it is downright embarrassing to be an evangelical. Oh, I'm not the least bit...

December 17, 2012

What Answer Will You Be?

C. S. Lewis -- The Problem of Pain God is both further from us, and...

December 16, 2012

A Prayer for the Fallen

Merton's Prayer MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I...

December 15, 2012

The Evil at Sandy Hook

Evil visited this community today, so declared Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy. Malloy was one of many who...

December 12, 2012

Heaven on Parkchester Drive

There are stacks of books on my mother's dressers, piles of books on her bedside...

December 10, 2012

When I lay dying, read me Flannery

When I am dying do not read to me books of heaven and the people...

December 09, 2012

Suicide & the Code of Silence

"Nobody commits suicide because they want to die - They just want to stop the...

December 08, 2012

First Amendment Family

Raised up in Seattle, he'd grown up comfortable. Not unaware but at least far removed...

December 06, 2012

Faith as a One-Hit Wonder

I'd just filled up the gas tank on my way out of Spokane when I...

December 05, 2012

Sullivan picks winner from a blue hat

This is the time in which we announce our winner for Michael Morris's latest fiction...

December 02, 2012

Celebrating Lillian

I'm writing this from a Starbucks in Columbus, Georgia. I made a very quick...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

Dolly Parton Reads Michael Morris: Book Giveaway

Lucky winners of last week's giveaway should be receiving their books in the mail...

November 28, 2012

Mother Steel & Marlo Thomas

I worry that we have only changed out addictions. Traded in the packs of...

November 27, 2012

The Mystery of Transformation

And do not follow the customs of the present age, but be transformed by the...

November 25, 2012

Photo Scandal at Arlington

Lindsey Stone says she was just joking around when she posed for this photo...

November 24, 2012

Giveaway: Selling Water by the River

Did you get the house decorated for the holidays yet? No. Me neither. I'm hardly...

November 21, 2012

The Red-Lettered Gospel of a Homeless Poet

Seattle’s evening rush hour traffic had finally eased off. An all-day rain had soaked the...

November 20, 2012

Selling Water by the River: Book Giveaway

What does he mean, the Bible as metaphor? Mama asked. Oh. You know, I...

November 17, 2012

Keeping the Swarm

They say it often, and it is true, there is no miracle like that of...

November 14, 2012

Sex in the CIA

When the economic collapse of 2008 took place an important story got buried. It seems...

November 12, 2012

Dawn of a New Birthday

The dawn of this day began with a flight west. Headed home. Home...

November 10, 2012

Denying Ourselves

After my mother was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in August, someone told...

November 09, 2012

Thanking the People

The lines to D-gates were inexplicably long at PDX Thursday afternoon. They divided us...

November 07, 2012

Expecting a Political Messiah

She sat in the pastor's office, a blubbering heap. I just don't know what...

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