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November 2011

November 29, 2011

Questions for Ellen Painter Dollar on Being Pro-Choice Part Two

What restrictions would you put on reproductive choice? Fervent pro-choice advocates face a dilemma as...

November 29, 2011

Questions for Ellen Painter Dollar on Being Pro-Choice Part One

We have three more posts related to abortion--Ellen Painter Dollar's answers to my questions, which...

November 28, 2011

Questions for Karen Swallow Prior on Being Pro-Life

Two weeks ago, I posted two essays about abortion. In the first one, Karen Swallow...

November 23, 2011

Why People Who Aren’t Christians Should be Glad When Christians are Around…

I live in the Northeast, where it's kind of unusual, and certainly suspect, to be...

November 22, 2011

Will Your Kids Keep the Faith?

I had a post last week on her.meneutics, "Why Teens Drift Away From Faith" that...

November 17, 2011

Why I Am Pro-Life by Karen Swallow Prior

I am a Christian. And I am pro-life. These two labels don’t always or necessarily...

November 16, 2011

A Good and Perfect Gift Recent Reviews

Marilee and I head up to Boston today, and I'm looking forward to visiting...

November 16, 2011

Faith, Down syndrome, and Becoming Human

I read Kathryn Soper's The Year My Son and I Were Born when it was...

November 11, 2011

The Meaning of Providence

I wrote a post last week called "We're Moving, or the Providence of God" in...

November 08, 2011

What I’ve Learned from Penny: An Interview on Her.meneutics

My friend and colleague Karen Swallow Prior interviewed me about A Good and Perfect Gift...

November 07, 2011

A Good and Perfect Gift in Publisher’s Weekly Top Ten . . .

I can't really believe that I'm about to write this, but I just found out...

November 07, 2011

Who is at the Center of your Family?

I wrote last week about our upcoming move to a small boarding school in Connecticut,...

November 04, 2011

A Good and Perfect Gift Reviews: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

A Good and Perfect Gift has been "out there" for about two months now, and...

November 03, 2011

We’re Moving, or the Providence of God

My husband has a new job. It doesn't start until July, but he was recently...

November 02, 2011

Rethinking Perfection

Last Thursday night, I was invited to share my thoughts on the meaning of perfection...

October 2011

October 24, 2011

What Good Are Emotions?

My mother-in-law used to have a list of "feeling words" on her refrigerator. They were...

October 21, 2011

A Smattering: Dragon Mother, Reading the Bible Makes You Liberal, and Sequenom Releases New Prenatal Test for Down Syndrome

By now, many of you have already read Notes From a Dragon Mom, Emily Rapp's beautiful...

October 18, 2011

Strength in Grace: Reflections on Brennan Manning’s All Is Grace

"You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus." --2...

October 14, 2011

More Reviews of A Good and Perfect Gift

A friend remarked a number of years ago that writing a memoir has three stages--living...

October 13, 2011

Making Mistakes

When we sit down to dinner as a family, we often go around the table...

October 11, 2011

The Comparison Trap

I've been thinking about comparisons. We do it without thinking--compare our waistline to the person...

September 2011

September 29, 2011

Fanatics and Faithfulness

I had the chance to hear Tim Keller speak last weekend on "The Gospel in...

September 27, 2011

Prone to Wander

"Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" is one of my very favorite hymns. We sang...

September 26, 2011

What People Are Saying About A Good and Perfect Gift

I thought you might be interested in a few reviews of A Good and Perfect...

September 26, 2011

Grieving the Loss of a Hypothetical Child

I grieved after Penny was born. I wish it weren't true, but I can't deny...

September 23, 2011

All the Things I Meant to Write, and a Nice Mini-Review of A Good and Perfect Gift

Here's a list of the blog posts I meant to write this week (the picture,...

September 22, 2011

Hurricane Irene, 9/11, and the Meaning of a House

I have a new post on her.meneutics about the near-destruction of our family's summer...

September 13, 2011

Why I’m Both Spiritual and Religious

A lot of my friends describe themselves as "spiritual but not religious." I think I...

September 12, 2011

Another Excerpt and A Good and Perfect Gift Now Available on Kindle

Sharon Hodde Miller was kind enough to promote my book on her blog, sheworships.com. For...

September 09, 2011

Does Every Man Use Porn? Really?

I have a new post on her.meneutics, MIA: Men Who Don't Use Pornography. It begins:...

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