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February 2010

February 04, 2010

Spreading America’s Ills Around the World

I have a new post on the Park Forum: "Is Scientific Research Driving Us Crazy?"

February 03, 2010

Book Reading at Yale and an Article worth Reading

No deep thoughts to record this morning, but two points of possible interest:One, for anyone...

February 02, 2010

Giving Money to Haiti

Peter and I, like many Americans, have talked a lot about Haiti recently. We've wondered...

February 01, 2010

“Remember the Poor”

There's this verse in the book of Galatians that always catches me off guard. It...

January 2010

January 30, 2010

Obama’s Influences: Stories and Statistics

I read an interesting article in the Washington Post earlier this week about the various...

January 29, 2010

The Beauty of Flabby Arms…

I wrote a post here over the summer that received a lot of comments, so...

January 28, 2010

Markers are for Paper, Mama

Three snapshots of life in our household:One:Yesterday morning, Peter finds Penny and William in the...

January 27, 2010

Humility and Leadership

I have a new post on the Park Forum: Are Christians Wimps? talking about the...

January 26, 2010

Fragility and Hope

Some of you will remember this article from two years back, when I was pregnant...

January 25, 2010

“I Want to Be Like Penny”

I dropped Penny off at school this morning, and a mom of another little girl...

January 23, 2010

Adultery and Grace

I have a new post on Christianity Today's Women's Blog: Iris Robinson Jesus Loves You...

January 22, 2010

A few more thoughts about God, memoir, and cultural narcissism

And now a few more thoughts... The important thing about memoir in general is that...

January 22, 2010

Cultural Narcissism and Memoir: Confession and Redemption Without God?

I'm hoping to write more about this later today, but the grocery store calls. So...

January 21, 2010

Haiti and the judgment, or compassion, of God

I have a new post on The Park Forum: "Pat Robertson Said What?"

January 20, 2010

Kids and Original Sin: Broken and Beautiful

Years ago, I was on a weekend retreat with a group of high school students....

January 18, 2010

Have you seen Avatar?

And if so, what did you think?I'm particularly curious for two reasons. One, Peter and...

January 15, 2010

Haiti and asking “why”?

For good reason, the devastation in Haiti is all over the news, and in our...

January 14, 2010

What do Medical Students think of Down Syndrome?

I'm part of a local network of parents of kids with Down syndrome, and we...

January 13, 2010

Faith and Choice

My new friend Ellen Dollar is looking for people to interview for her new book...

January 13, 2010

Women and Religion: Oppression or Liberation?

New Post on the Park Forum: Religion and Women: Nicholas Kristof is Wrong...

January 12, 2010

Grocery Stores and God’s Grace

We went to the grocery store after church yesterday. We were out of milk. And...

January 12, 2010

So what exactly is Down syndrome?

Lisa Belkin wrote about Down syndrome yesterday on her blog for the New York Times:...

January 09, 2010

Race and Religion

New post on the Park Forum: Desegregating the Sunday School Hour

January 08, 2010

Ugly Grief

We traveled as a family to New Orleans over the holidays. For the first time,...

January 07, 2010

Choices

Ten years ago, my dad called to talk to my husband. "I hear you're working...

January 06, 2010

Updates

For those of you who live in the tri-state area, I wanted to let you...

January 05, 2010

Holy Inefficiency

Christmas Eve, 11 pm. It was the first time since we've had children that my...

January 04, 2010

Thanks to Andy Crouch

Happy New Year! My celebrations started early when I read that Andy Crouch (author of...

December 2009

December 31, 2009

Us With God: Part Three

When God raised Jesus from the dead, God proved that everything Jesus had claimed about...

December 30, 2009

Us With God: Part Two

Jesus died a criminal’s death. He was executed in the most brutal method the Romans...

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