Why Your Life on This Planet Means Something
All human beings like to feel that we have a reason for existing. It’s not narcissistic: created in the image of a creative God, we have it in us — in our genes, in our DNA, in our soul, in our being —...
View ArticleThe Freedom to Celebrate — Or Not Bother With — Easter
Freedom is one of those words we wax eloquent about, whether we’re singing a patriotic hymn or weeping through a religious event at a football stadium, but when it comes to actually experiencing it, or...
View ArticleIlliterate American Christianity
There is a religious ditty that, once you hear it, sticks in your mind forever: Read your Bible pray every day, pray every day, pray every day Read your Bible pray every day And you’ll grow, grow,...
View ArticleIt’s Okay to Do Nothing for God
Sometimes, doing nothing is what God wants us to do. It’s a difficult concept, this doing nothing, conditioned as we are through multiple weekly church inculcations to see works as a means of...
View ArticleHousewives, Unemployed, and Other Invisible People
We live in a society that validates — or condemns — people based upon the title of their occupation, and how much they make doing it. Children are so undervalued in our society that anyone who cares...
View ArticleHow Meaningful Is Your Job, and Your Life?
The other day I chatted with a young woman who was excited about her first “real” job, that of a counselor working with troubled and potentially suicidal clients. Firefighter, commissioned watercolor...
View ArticleBlessed Are the Rejects
Maybe it’s because we live in the country and don’t have a proper lawn, but I really like dandelions. People with the minds and hearts of children see and understand with a wisdom denied to the canny...
View ArticleTo All the Discouraged Mommy Bloggers
Years ago, in the efforts to “grow” my blog, I participated in blog carnivals. These involve a host site setting up a single page where other bloggers leave a link to one of their articles, with the...
View ArticleThe Walt Disney World of American Christianity
Do you remember What Would Jesus Do? It was a pop culture phenomenon in the 1990s, still limping along today, that prompted Christians to question their every action and thought, with the goal of...
View ArticleThe Power of Doing Nothing
Busy, purposeful, efficient, enterprising — these are words of excellence and worth in American culture. When you think about it, the U.S. doesn’t actually have a culture, unless you consider going to...
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