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April 2015

April 14, 2015

Is Religion Harmful to Children? A Prominent MD Rethinks Jesus.

Dr. Paul Offit was pretty sure that religion was harmful to children. But while...

March 2015

March 23, 2015

Long before Bittman, the classic, quietly bestselling cookbook about health, faith, and justice

There were no shortage of nutty Christian diet books in and around the churches and...

February 2015

February 06, 2015

No, vaccinating your children (or not) is not a “personal decision”

Actually, it's the exact opposite of that. Religion is sometimes said to make people abandon...

February 02, 2015

Roald Dahl, Whose Daughter Died of Measles: “It is really almost a crime to let your children go unimmunized.”

I'll just make it clear from the outset where I stand: I believe that every...

January 2015

January 23, 2015

Your right to forgo vaccines ends in our shared airspace

This piece from The Onion, "I don't vaccinate my child because it's my right to...

January 20, 2015

Why you should still bring canned goods to food drives

We live in a time in which most of us are so savvy that we're...

January 14, 2015

On taking communion: why it’s okay to make crunching noises

It may not seem like it, but this is a question of serious theological import:...

December 2014

December 11, 2014

Talking with children about death and God and Christmas (and much more)

One of my sons talks a lot about death, and it comes up in the...

December 06, 2014

A Very Foodie Giveaway

Let me be clear: I do *not* think that right now is "the most wonderful...

December 04, 2014

Tis the season for really sad songs in church

It is really no wonder that Western European Christians began celebrating Advent in the days...

December 03, 2014

Five minutes that’ll make your day — and your life — better.

"Being more mindful" "Being more present" "Meditating more" "Spending more time in prayer" "Nurturing the...

November 2014

November 20, 2014

Don’t bother me, kids: I’m having my disquiet time

I was nurtured in a Christian tradition that encouraged the daily practice of what was...

November 10, 2014

Craving an adrenaline rush? Do something selfless.

Hate me if you must, but I am not a fan of Cheryl Strayed's book Wild, and...

November 07, 2014

Eating disorders, diets, delicious food and a beautiful God

Once upon a time, I was convinced that as soon as I truly loved God...

November 05, 2014

Marilynne Robinson on politics: “the cheapest intellectual environment that you can enter into.”

People of every faith and no faith at all respect Marilynne Robinson's formidable intellect, creative...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

Marilynne Robinson on faith and fear (& how we can be free not to worry)

It'll sound like I am joking but I'm not: I was worried about reading this...

October 28, 2014

Why a former exotic dancer says its not up to Christians to say “go and sin no more.”

Anny Donewald lived her young life in the spotlight. Her dad was a well-known college...

October 20, 2014

What happened when a self-declared dog-despiser accidentally adopted a Pit Bull

Another guest post by my wonderful dad, written when Gracie-the-dog died more than twelve years...

October 15, 2014

R.C. Sproul, Jr. : “a beard is a revolution on the face,” a “radical affirmation” of gender norms

So this happened, merely the latest installment in the collection of "dumb patriarchalist sh*t Christian...

October 14, 2014

The Best Pumpkin Spice Brownies You Will Ever Bake

When did pumpkin spice everything become such a THING? I don't remember it happening, but...

October 13, 2014

The Most Stunning Children’s Bible — That’s No Longer in Print (But Should Be)

There is an appealing, almost haunting spareness to the Taize Picture Bible (1968) in both...

October 10, 2014

The Things We Can’t — and Shouldn’t — Make Our Children Do

When I was pregnant with our first child there were so many things I...

October 08, 2014

8 good things about my dad

Like any daughter, I've had my share of conflicts with my dad. Many of those...

October 07, 2014

3 things that’ll help you understand the Ebola crisis

While I was waiting for a flight last week, all airport televisions were blaring ongoing...

October 06, 2014

6 Simple Ways to Annoy Non-Christians

Sometimes we Christians get a little confused on best practices for alienating those who don't...

August 2014

August 11, 2014

The terrifying possibility of being raptured before our wedding nights

Like other children raised in dispensationalist circles, if I couldn’t locate my parents — our...

May 2014

May 07, 2014

For the first time in (almost) forever…

Regular readers may have noticed that I appear to have, well, disappeared. (Apart, of course,...

March 2014

March 20, 2014

How I learned to stop worrying and just eat the darn cupcake

Food wasn't a good gift from God to be received and eaten with pleasure and...

March 12, 2014

Why I hope there will be more cartoon characters like Hiccup

My sons are small and skinny. They are nothing like the heavily muscled superheroes they...

March 04, 2014

Can reading help us to become better people?

I have a confession: sometimes when I’ve finished a really good novel, I miss the...