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This Easter Eve, consider your adoption (with a little help from dc Talk)
And then dance like it’s 1995.
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Billie Eilish and the oppressiveness of Too Much Internet
On Eilish's award-winning "What Was I Made For?"
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Bearing your cross is easier than bearing the weight of your own identity
Abraham and "Sonnet 29," plus new music rec
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Saying “No” and “Yes” on Ash Wednesday
Death is the ultimate “No.” But resurrection is the more-ultimate “Yes.”
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How we've wrestled with fertility and infertility at Christmastime
Christmastime can expose couples facing fertility challenges to an acute feeling of loss in a season supposedly brimming with gain. Plus: Christmas…
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Autumn and everything after
Even in the midst of life, death, and existential constipation, Jesus offers lightness, truth, and pink sunrises to those who know that life is a long…
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A prayer before a court hearing
Court hearings in the child welfare and foster care system are wild. Heavy. Intense, a time-and-matter condensing event. Plus: it's fall, so it's time…
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‘The Lord of the Rings’: The return of the blog
It took us almost a whole year, but our family read ‘The Lord of the Rings’ out loud.
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Side Notes
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