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2014-06-29T11:28:31-05:00

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Blog Tour Redux: Week Deux

Last updated on: June 29, 2014 at 11:28 am By Michelle Van Loon

The blog tour for If Only: Letting Go Of Regret continued this past week, and will wrap up the middle of next week. Today, a recap of the sweet middle of this journey `round the web talking about regret, redemption and renewal. Check out these sweet links, including one that is hosting a way for you to win a copy of the book. If you’ve read the book, I’d be so grateful if you’d add a couple of lines of... Read more

Regret

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2014-06-23T18:16:46-05:00

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The Jewish Roots of Christian Sabbath

Last updated on: June 23, 2014 at 6:16 pm By Michelle Van Loon

Where I come from, Shabbat begins at dusk on Friday nights, and ends when the first three stars become visible on Saturday evening. The twenty-five or so hours from Friday evening through Saturday evening are meant to be a time of restorative rest and reconnection with God, family and faith community, I grew up in a fairly secular Jewish home in a predominately Jewish neighborhood, and understood that the Sabbath was a core part of our Jewish identity, even if few in... Read more

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2014-06-22T07:49:19-05:00

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Blog Tour Wrap-Up: Week 1

Last updated on: June 22, 2014 at 7:49 am By Michelle Van Loon

It’s been an honor and a lot of fun to watch the discussion about If Only: Letting Go Of Regret travel around the web this week. Below you’ll find a wrap-up of the book-related posts – and a bonus. Yesterday, Ellen Painter Dollar shared a section of Chapter 9, entitled “When The Past Becomes The Present: Why Our History Still Tell Tales”. Visit her blog to read part one. Part two is below. Monday: Part 1 of an excerpt from Chapter... Read more

Regret

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2014-06-19T12:05:30-05:00

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Tied Up In Our Own Preferences

Last updated on: June 19, 2014 at 12:05 pm By Michelle Van Loon

While the contemporary ability to determine one’s family size is heralded as a mark of Western progress, that freedom carries with it moral and spiritual responsibility. Some branches of Christendom (most notably, the Catholic Church) have well-documented doctrinal positions about issues of reproductive technology and artificial means of birth control, many in the evangelical world default to silence on the issue of permanent sterilization. When Hobby Lobby and others made headlines for seekingexemption from the Affordable Care Act on religious... Read more

Regret

Spiritual Formation

2014-12-27T16:14:44-06:00

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The Collateral Damage From A Youth Pastor’s Sexual Sin

Last updated on: December 27, 2014 at 4:14 pm By Michelle Van Loon

Last week, Leadership Journal magazine posted an article penned by a youth pastor who groomed, then sexually abused a girl in his youth group. He is now in prison for his crimes. The anonymous article was saturated with a self-pitying tone, some horrifying reframing of his sin (statutory rape is not an “affair”), and a stunning lack of concern for the young woman upon whom he preyed. It took a couple of very intense days of social media activity by... Read more

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2014-12-27T19:17:03-06:00

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Virtual Road Trip + A Quick School Update

Last updated on: December 27, 2014 at 7:17 pm By Michelle Van Loon

A book is meant to create a conversation between writer and reader. A good book can spark conversations that echo far beyond its pages. By nature of its form and function, a book with 40,000 or more words (Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables clocks in at over 500,000 words) is an extended meditation on a subject or theme. The form and function of a blog post is an entirely different critter. Most blog posts are 500-1,000 words in length. They have... Read more

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What's A Nice Jewish Grandmother Like You Doing In Seminary?

2014-12-27T19:13:10-06:00

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Honoring The Dishonorable?

Last updated on: December 27, 2014 at 7:13 pm By Michelle Van Loon

This Sunday is Father’s Day. For some of us, the day will be a sentimental one filled with the gifts of a construction paper card with a crayoned sentiment and a medium-rare steak on the grill. For others, the word “Father” is tied to abuse, neglect or abandonment, and June 15th will be just another day of painful memories. My friend Libby Buchanan, a survivor of the child pornography industry, has earned a spot in the latter category, but has worked... Read more

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2014-12-27T19:18:28-06:00

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40+ And The Church/Practicing In Community

Last updated on: December 27, 2014 at 7:18 pm By Michelle Van Loon

“I wonder what the average age is of the group in this room.” Author and pastor Ian Morgan Cron scanned the group gathered in the chapel at Willow Creek last Sunday night for the experimental gathering dubbed The Practice. He was there to speak about, then lead us in communion. While there were a good number of twenty- and thirty-somethings representing, the crowd definitely skewed to older Gen X’ers and Boomers. Probably because there is no childcare or children’s programming available... Read more

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Spiritual Formation

2014-06-02T09:18:34-05:00

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Interview: Marlena Graves/A Beautiful Disaster

Last updated on: June 2, 2014 at 9:18 am By Michelle Van Loon

One of the first things that struck me about Marlena Graves’ writing was how very grounded she was. She could provide great analysis about disturbing cultural trends while at the same time managing to point her readers in the direction of the Jesus she loved. We’d first connected several years ago via our contributions to Christianity Today’s popular Her.meneutics blog. (Click here to have a peek at some of the topics Marlena has tackled for the site.) She has written... Read more

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Spiritual Formation

2014-12-27T19:23:27-06:00

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Come To The Table (Part 2)

Last updated on: December 27, 2014 at 7:23 pm By Michelle Van Loon

Yesterday, I shared the first half of this fictional story about a once-powerful head pastor who lost his job in an ugly game of church politics. (Click here to read it.) While this story is based in the stories I’ve heard from those who’ve been beat up in ministry, it also contains the reason I have hope for those who’ve built a church or organizational culture around their big personalities and ambitions. When all of the artifice is stripped away... Read more

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