In last week’s post, I asked you a question: “What is simple faith? How does one get it and how does one teach it?” You answered me generously, and I thank all who took the time and thought to respond. Here’s what I heard from you: A simple faith is, first and foremost, the result […]
Dear Readers, I have arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, to attend Sattler College’s inaugural year. There are beautiful parts of this city. I am living in the heart of Boston in the historic Back Bay district. The Charles River is just a five minute walk from our dorms. Just down the street half a mile are
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A book called Prayer, by Ole Hallesby — a Norwegian Christian who wrote in the early 1900s — changed my understanding of that basic-to-our-humanity, up-reaching thing we call prayer. I will share in my own words a few of Hallesby’s thoughts. Prayer is not words; it is an attitude of the heart. You can pray
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My days are filled with ordinary things, but when only a week remains before I head off across the country, ordinary things take on special meaning. This Sunday, I took my phone to church so Erin and I could take pictures together in our look-alike dresses. Erin was mostly unimpressed. She thought being thrown up
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One of the people I love most in all the world was a sexual abuse survivor. When I knew her, she was already an old woman, with black hair and a wrinkled face and a smile that transformed her being. She loved me with all her heart, but with me—as with all people in all
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