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December 2012

December 23, 2012

A Revolutionary Christmas Card from Me

Mary knows what Jesus' birth is all about: “My soul glorifies the Lord and my...

December 19, 2012

God, unlike religious people, never explains why.

It feels good to be able to explain why things happen. I think that this...

December 18, 2012

Look for the Helpers and Love the Children

There is so much to read on the recent tragic events. Here are a few...

December 17, 2012

Pray and Put Up a (Nonviolent) Fight

It hasn't even been six months since I quaked irrationally with fear as my husband...

December 12, 2012

Not Everyone Has a Bedroom

Aidan's reading assignment today involved a book that showed photographs of different kinds of houses...

December 11, 2012

Advent and Pregnancy

I have a new post up at Christianity Today's women's blog, her.meneutics. Here is a...

December 10, 2012

A Rainy Monday!

It's a rainy day, AND a Monday, but, contra Karen Carpenter, that's not getting me down...

December 07, 2012

Flight Behavior and Global Weirding

Last weekend, Graeme had a fever and so I ended up spending most of the...

December 06, 2012

At The End of the Day, An Ox Is Still Dead

The New York Times reported on an incident at a college in Vermont where an...

December 05, 2012

Ethnic Minority

Sometimes a picture tells the story all by itself.

December 04, 2012

From the back of the bus to the head of the free world, in less than 60 years

via my dad, 57 years (almost) to the day since the beginning of the Montgomery...

December 03, 2012

The American Addiction to Miraculous Curative Food/Diet/Exercise Programs

My friend Ellen has an interesting post up on the limits of sheer effort and...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

A Kitten and An Expanded Version of Tuesday’s Post

Okay, most important thing first: meet Tintin! Tintin apologizes for appearing on the Internet in...

November 29, 2012

The Stubby Pencil

Asan, who is six, loves my son Aidan, who he summons daily by standing outside...

November 28, 2012

Call the Midwife and the Gospel

I have a new post up at Her.meneutics, the Christianity Today women's blog on the...

November 27, 2012

Now We (Mostly) Outsource Our Atrocities

Maybe it's a mark of how wolfish and how polarized the American political climate has...

November 26, 2012

Why Is the Color of Band-Aids Caucasian?

How is it that before today I never noticed that Band-Aids are Caucasian-skin colored? Of...

November 21, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving! Here is All You Hope for in a Green Bean Casserole Recipe…

This is THE BEST recipe for green bean casserole, which here has been adapted from...

November 20, 2012

Things Don’t Always Work

It seems that every day something else isn't working: the electricity goes out about once...

November 19, 2012

Feeling Guilty for Playing the “Husband” Card

Sometimes I tell the various sellers of things, who are always coming to my gate...

November 16, 2012

Exercise and Appetites

Today I'm happy to welcome Tim Fall back to the blog for a guest post!...

November 15, 2012

And Sometimes You Miss Home.

Today is one of those times. The sun is shining, it's warm (yea, hot) and...

November 14, 2012

Breastfeeding, Babywearing, Local Produce, and Free-Range Poultry

Small observation: I love how all these things that are markers of eco-conscious consumption and...

November 13, 2012

We ALL Benefit from Human Labor

It’s hard to know where to start in talking about what it is like here,...

November 12, 2012

In Malawi!

Hello from Malawi! We have been here nearly a week and are still backward and...

November 06, 2012

Today is the day…

...that we fly to Malawi! (And, yes, it's Election Day, too. I will be sitting...

November 05, 2012

Can I “eat with joy” while others can’t eat at all?

This week we've been considering this question: Is it better simply not to know about...

November 02, 2012

Rachel Held Evans and the Hermeneutics of Love

*I apologize in advance for the length of this post. ;)* “If you would win...

November 01, 2012

How Knowing Things Saves Lives.

{Part Two} So yesterday I asked whether it is better not to know about the...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Plagues and Famines: Better Not to Know?

Have you wondered if maybe it's better not to know about great suffering? After all,...