I hated that Charlene smoked. I viewed her cigarettes as a personal enemy—a fiendish dictator who stole her freedom and her health. Some of the few harsh words I spoke to her were about her smoking addiction. The only time I refused to help her was when she asked me to buy her a pack […]
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Charlene, my old-lady Ojibwe friend, changed my life. I also changed hers. Through Charlene, I grew familiar with issues I had never faced before in my small, sheltered world. In trying to help her, I learned from her. In a series of blog posts over the next several weeks, I want to explore, through the
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Yesterday, I rode with Ivan on the golf cart to check his hay fields, and the breeze was balmy and the grass bright green against the billowed sky and the curled pines at the edge of the field promised enchantment. Our child kicked in my uterus and Ivan told me that he loved me, and
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Thank you to all of you who have prayed for Ivan and me and our little one. I won’t go into details about the medical issues besides saying the doctor believed, after a physical check, that I might experience complications in pregnancy. An ultrasound this week seems to show that everything’s okay and has relieved
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This article appeared first in Anabaptist World. *** I write this several weeks before a Presidential election that will determine the leader of a country more polarized than I have seen it in my thirty-some years of living. Many of you, like me, have watched the rhetoric of journalists, politicians, and social media users grow
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