On the first Saturday in February, Mom and Dad and I arrived home from our nighttime cleaning job to the acrid odor of something charred. I walked in the door first. “What’s burning?” Chad was holed up in his room, but Jeffrey ambled from the living room, red-nosed and stuffy-looking. “Benny came in and asked […]
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A criminal and I have one thing in common. Like any good criminal, I view myself as a good person. Better than most others, probably. “Perhaps the most surprising discovery in my early years of trying to understand the criminal mind was that, without exception, offenders regard themselves as good human beings,” writes Dr. Stanton
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I made a promise once. I meant it with all my shaking soul. I think it would be difficult to say what an influence that promise has had on my life, impossible to count how many times I have read it again or remembered it, crying. I don’t remember the date or the time of
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What Is Mennonite-ness? A friend told me recently that I should blog about maintaining Mennonite-ness in an unceasingly wired and media-oriented world. She is full of fascinated questions about my lifestyle–questions such as: Is it true that you drive only black cars? How does a bald Mennonite woman pin on her cap? Can Mennonites make
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We disagree on many things. I believe the Bible is true. You do not. You are very blithe on this subject. “One doesn’t need to take it literally,” you say. “It could be taken as man’s search for meaning.” You do not seem to realize that it isn’t just my religion that is wrapped up
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