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2013-08-14T06:50:35-04:00

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Why is it so hard to say things? Thoughts on Newspeak, AIDSpeak, and ObesitySpeak

Last updated on: August 14, 2013 at 6:50 am By Rachel Marie Stone

I am not shy about using the saltshaker, and neither I nor anyone else in my family has any sort of problem with blood pressure. That’s because we mostly don’t eat things that come out of packages or from fast-food places (where someone else takes them out of packages) and the salt that is a problem in the North American diet doesn’t come from the saltshaker but from the extreme levels of sodium in packaged foods. But you will never... Read more

2013-08-13T09:45:06-04:00

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Three Reasons I Really Did Not Like Michael Pollan’s Newest, “Cooked”

Last updated on: August 13, 2013 at 9:45 am By Rachel Marie Stone

1. The premise feels phony and staged: Pollan has said that he is “more at home in the garden than the kitchen” (In Defense of Food), but this modesty about his cooking skills is less than convincing to those who read The Omnivore’s Dilemma, in which he prepared a highly local meal of wild pork cooked two ways, bread leavened with wild yeasts he captured himself, and a sour cherry galette with fruit from Pollan’s own trees. This same odd... Read more

Cooked: A Natural History

2013-08-12T06:00:28-04:00

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Anxiety is Love’s Greatest Killer

Last updated on: August 12, 2013 at 6:00 am By Rachel Marie Stone

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2013-08-09T07:08:54-04:00

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While You’re Signing That Change.org Petition, Don’t Forget to Look Up From Your iPhone

Last updated on: August 9, 2013 at 7:08 am By Rachel Marie Stone

My friend Karen Swallow Prior has an award-winning essay up at Christianity Today’s This is Our City project called “How I Learned to Love my Literal Neighbor.” I told her it reminded me of this old Peanuts strip: Here’s just a taste of Karen’s essay: “Both of us had been raised in the country, in fact. So living on a lot the size of a postage stamp in a sea of mass-produced buildings stacked up against each other—even the small... Read more

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2013-08-08T07:30:59-04:00

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Eat With Joy: Redeeming God’s Gift of Food on SALE for $2.99 on Kindle

Last updated on: August 8, 2013 at 7:30 am By Rachel Marie Stone

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2013-08-07T08:01:23-04:00

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What Not To Do When There’s Nothing Much You Can Do

Last updated on: August 7, 2013 at 8:01 am By Rachel Marie Stone

I don’t like goodbyes. For years, when my mother and I are about to say goodbye–when the visit is drawing to a close, say, or one of us (why is it always me?) is about to take off on a new adventure–we have picked inane fights with one another. We are quite expert at inane arguments. My dad once happened upon us in the kitchen, debating passionately, even Talmudically about seltzer. Yes. Sparkling water. Seltzer. Fighting about it. With religious... Read more

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2013-08-05T07:36:18-04:00

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When We Are More Interested in Evangelical In-Fighting Than Serious Issues of Justice

Last updated on: August 5, 2013 at 7:36 am By Rachel Marie Stone

My dad used to tell a joke from the pulpit, back when “damn” was a much stronger word in evangelical/fundamentalist circles than it is now. It went roughly like this: “Millions of people die every day from preventable causes without ever having heard about Jesus’ love, and most of you don’t give a damn, and most of you are probably more worried about the fact that I said ‘damn’ than about the fact that millions of people die daily from... Read more

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2013-08-02T09:30:54-04:00

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Put Down Your iPhone, Moses, Not All Messages Come Via Text

Last updated on: August 2, 2013 at 9:30 am By Rachel Marie Stone

I think this image really is worth at least a thousand words, which is the maximum recommended length for blog posts anyway–don’t you? (Yes–I am trying to get in some unplugged time of my own. Welcome to the magic of pre-scheduled blog posts. Here’s hoping you get some time and space and peace in your day.) As always, image courtesy My Awesome Dad. Read more

2013-08-01T09:00:09-04:00

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The Unexpected Way of Jesus

Last updated on: August 1, 2013 at 9:00 am By Rachel Marie Stone

Imagine: you have been waiting a long time for a surprise. You know that it is coming, but not what, exactly, it will be. But you have a lot of time to think about it, so you have started to imagine just what it will be. A expensive gift, a lavish vacation, or even a promotion at work. Or maybe just a really great party, thrown in your honor. But when the day of the surprise comes, it is not... Read more

2013-07-31T09:31:33-04:00

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Results Returned: Searching Evangelical Blogs…and the Bible (a comic strip)

Last updated on: July 31, 2013 at 9:31 am By Rachel Marie Stone

True or False: Micah prophesied that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem.

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