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2014-02-11T19:45:44-04:00

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Not Laughing at #SochiProblems: Some People Have to Live There, You Know

Last updated on: February 11, 2014 at 7:45 pm By Rachel Marie Stone

from my most recent post at Religion News Service… Look, I get it: people don’t go to the Olympics expecting to endure what seems to them like developing-world problems. There are serious concerns and controversies about the winter Olympics at Sochi, and it’s hard not to see the ridiculous mishaps as a humorous end to so much arrogance mixed with incompetence on the part of the government. But from where I sit (literally), most of the jokes about the conditions... Read more

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2014-02-11T08:45:31-04:00

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Grace for the tired out parent

Last updated on: February 11, 2014 at 8:45 am By Rachel Marie Stone

Our first child opened his eyes on this world for the first time at the beginning of October in Northern California. I was on my feet minutes after his delivery, and out walking with him in the sunshine two days after that. Although I had been ambivalent on learning of my pregnancy – we’d been married barely a year and a half; I’d just turned 23, and we hadn’t planned this – every cliché in the book applied: my son... Read more

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2014-02-06T09:54:26-04:00

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Meet Me At Religion News Service!

Last updated on: February 6, 2014 at 9:54 am By Rachel Marie Stone

I’m excited to share that I’ll now be blogging at Religion News Service starting TODAY! I’ll still use this space for other things, including linking to my RNS posts. I hope you’ll join me there! {click here} Read more

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2014-01-31T08:30:46-04:00

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Weirdest Search Terms of The Past Quarter.

Last updated on: January 31, 2014 at 8:30 am By Rachel Marie Stone

It’s been a long time since I posted–or even looked at–some of the search terms that landed people on this site, and, as always, it is a bizarrely fun little experience. Below are some favorites, with my responses. “How do I reply if someone say happy guy fawkes day?” You could always go with a friendly, “same to you!” or “likewise!” or “thanks, but actually I’m terrified of fireworks, they make me lose control of my bladder.” “Edith Schaeffer doesn’t... Read more

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2014-01-29T08:30:15-04:00

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Can School (and Work) Be Like Play?

Last updated on: January 29, 2014 at 8:30 am By Rachel Marie Stone

In a recent article, Boston College psychology professor Peter Gray argues that children today are “suffering from a severe deficit of play” that corresponds to their general loss of freedom. This stems from a variety of reasons: children increasingly attend school—or something structured a lot like school—at earlier ages and for longer hours. Adult-led activities have largely replaced child-led ones: organized sports teams, not pickup games; art lessons, not unstructured hours spent with sketchbooks and pencils or canvas and paint.... Read more

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2014-01-22T07:30:46-04:00

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Parasites, People, Pain; Anger, Frustration, Futility. And Hope. Eventually.

Last updated on: January 22, 2014 at 7:30 am By Rachel Marie Stone

I haven’t been writing much, especially not here, in a while. At the risk of oversharing–and to put it in sweet, verbose evangelicalese–I have been blessed with the opportunity to graciously host a variety of God’s precious microscopic creatures in my home and body, and in the bodies of several of my family members. So grateful to do my part to facilitate the growth and development of these vigorous and rapidly adaptable creatures! I have to admire their resiliency–how quickly... Read more

2015-02-11T15:10:10-04:00

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Bursting With Signifiers of Hipster Cool: A Cranky, Slightly Hilarious Review of the ‘Kinfolk Table’ Cookbook

Last updated on: February 11, 2015 at 3:10 pm By Rachel Marie Stone

Beware the book reviewer who reads and writes while suffering from a cold and an intestinal parasite in one of the ten poorest countries on the planet… In the new Kinfolk Table cookbook–an offshoot of the hip indie ‘lifestyle’ magazine Kinfolk, recipe contributors (based mainly in Brooklyn, Portland, Copenhagen, and the English countryside) are a mostly young-ish, mostly beautiful collection of creative types: printmakers and photographers and designers of one sort or another; chefs and ‘artisanal’ makers of cheese, ice... Read more

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2014-01-13T09:30:29-04:00

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PSA: If You’re a Writer (or want to be) Read This Book.

Last updated on: January 13, 2014 at 9:30 am By Rachel Marie Stone

Seriously. Do yourself a favor and get it. Read it. I’ll be writing more about it later. Read more

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2014-01-08T08:33:18-04:00

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This Year, Don’t Diet: Eat with Joy

Last updated on: January 8, 2014 at 8:33 am By Rachel Marie Stone

I love food. I enjoy thinking about new recipes, planning menus for dinner parties, cooking, and, of course, eating: everything from fresh baguettes, cheeses of all kinds, chocolate, and, especially, the New York pizza I grew up with; the kind that turns the paper plate transparent because it’s so greasy. Fewer than ten years ago, though, I wouldn’t have been able to admit that this most basic of human comforts–food–brought me so much pleasure. In fact, food didn’t bring me... Read more

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2014-01-06T11:41:41-04:00

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Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand “Positive Thinking”

Last updated on: January 6, 2014 at 11:41 am By Rachel Marie Stone

Happiness sells. So do books promising a way to help you be happier—especially when they carry the designation “Christian.” In her 2009 book Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America, social critic Barbara Ehrenreich traces the genealogy of positive thinking ideology back to religious Americans: for example, Norman Vincent Peale, author of the 1952 best seller The Power of Positive Thinking, and Mary Baker Eddy, the 19th-century founder of Christian Science. Positive psychology is now profitable quite apart from any... Read more

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