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May 2018

May 20, 2018

Where Should The Missionary Go?

Yesterday was crazy busy and I missed the #royalwedding. Don’t spoil it for me because...

April 2018

April 14, 2018

Book Notes: Chicken, Audible, Jesus, and Oliver Sacks

Have been plugging away through various books over the last month or so. Managed to...

February 2018

February 24, 2018

Notes From Home: Remembering Billy Graham

This is turning out to be one of those embarrassing occasions where I latently discover...

February 06, 2018

An Update Too Long Overdue

Yesterday, at the ghastly hour of eight in the morning, I drove my parents to...

January 2018

January 12, 2018

7 Fascinating Takes

[You can't have coffee here unless you go to Africa.] It's Friday and it's raining,...

January 07, 2018

Light That The Darkness Cannot Overcome

When you fix yourself to Christ, what do you think is going to happen? Most...

December 2017

December 14, 2017

The Tea is Forever Made

Well, look at this. I trotted off to church last night for choir practice--three of...

December 06, 2017

Winning At Advent

Ok ok. I get it, it's Advent. I know it's been Advent for several days....

November 2017

November 18, 2017

Notes from Home: Turkey and Pie

[These cats wish you would give them some turkey.] Would you believe it, I've caught...

November 06, 2017

Monday on the Catch Up Links

[These arrived at my house shortly after I did--a gorgeous present from a lovely friend.]...

November 05, 2017

They Always Make Us Switch The Clock On Sunday

The gathering of people into systems and groups makes visibly manifest the deep wickedness at...

November 04, 2017

Going Inside: Cultural Notes from ‘Home’

This is the most brilliant article of the day. Yes and Amen. It's really long...

November 02, 2017

Travel Notes From Home

Well, that was quite the adventure. Just a little week bitten out of ordinary life...

October 2017

October 30, 2017

Notes from Nairobi

Off to the hospital again this morning. I have no idea how long it takes...

October 27, 2017

7 Takes to Better Health

That's just a little joke. I mean, if I had seven takes to better health...

October 25, 2017

Travel Notes: Flying Isn’t Nice Anymore

[My Own Travelocity Gnome] I've only been dealing in one liners for the last twenty...

October 24, 2017

Off I Go

So, I'm just going to be having a spot of travel today, if you have...

September 2017

September 04, 2017

Monday on the Nashville Podcast and Links

Happy Labor Day. We woke up early and had a nice long argument about the...

July 2017

July 10, 2017

Critical Monday on the Links and a Podcast

Good Moaning. I am afflicted with a rich and bubbly cold, because of course. But...

July 04, 2017

3 Threads on the 4th of July

I went through my archives hoping to find that I'd already written something fascinating about...

July 02, 2017

Bread Is Easier

We at Good Shepherd have been going through Hebrews pretty methodically for a while now....

June 2017

June 22, 2017

Untangling Race, Language and Culture in America

I don’t understand the racially pockmarked landscape that surrounds me. Even though I read about...

March 2017

March 08, 2017

For International Women’s Day be a Social Mercy Warrior

Doesn't have quite the same ring, does it? The very first time I heard the...

February 2017

February 12, 2017

Why Couldn’t the People of Israel have been Obedient Like Me

Am limping through my briskly paced read-the-bible-in-a-year-and-the-Psalms-twice plan. Have nearly made it out of January...

January 2017

January 03, 2017

Not That Kind of Person

I linked this fab podcast I just discovered yesterday. I feel stupid for not knowing...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Two Singers and the World and Jesus

As a general principle, I am against sniveling nostalgia and try to avoid it at...

August 2016

August 12, 2016

It’s the Fault of the Building

Was going to save this article for tomorrow, because it's exactly the sort of thing I...

July 2016

July 09, 2016

Saturday on the Raining Links

I am deeply grieved to say that there won't be a podcast today. We need...

July 05, 2016

Notes from Home

Would you believe it. We totally lived through the last two weeks. I'm not exactly...

May 2016

May 14, 2016

Saturday on the Trans-Hysteric Links

I have a busy day ahead of me, and need to be up and leaping...