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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The guest post I promised, from Mary Burkholder, author of My Other Name Is Mom. *** Something happened to me thirteen years ago that changed my life forever. I had a baby, and he made me a mother. When I was a little girl, I loved babies. I was irresistibly drawn to their tiny, perfect
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I talked to a good friend of mine after my post a few weeks ago: “Sometimes I Wonder about this Thing Called Separation.” In the process of that conversation, I gained a clearer understanding of what I think about separation. I don’t think Christians should talk about separation at all. Or at least, very little.
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Sometimes I look at people like my own sweet grandma and my mother in law, who are both in their 80’s, with a pleasant sort of condescension. Their lives revolve around their quilt blocks and their canning and what the neighbor said. For news, they read the Budget. (For the unenlightened, that’s a 50-page weekly
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Ten years ago, you wouldn’t have wanted to get on the wrong side of Paul Lansing. An ex-Marine who’d trained for 35 years in martial arts, he was a hulk of a guy with a demeanor that said, “Don’t mess with me.” Nowadays, if you were to see him with his neighbor’s children cuddled up
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