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“R” Rated Bible…for Kids?

Yesterday in making my rounds as a corporate chaplain, I ran into one man who volunteered that he and his family had recently seen the movie, “The Passion of the Christ,” for the very first time. “How old are your kids?,” [...]

Potty Prayers: How I Am Learning to Pray in the Bathroom

She almost hit me with the door as I was exiting the restroom of a company where I serve as a corporate chaplain. She’s the one in the front office who usually smiles when I come by. Not today. “How [...]

Brainstorming 2013 Together

The brainstorming for 2013 has begun.  Will you help, pretty please? I’m giving thought to possible blog series here at this intersection between God and life, and greatly appreciate your feedback.  For your input:  what from the below list most [...]

More Thoughts on “Disappearing Mothers”

My last post and popular blogger and author Rachel Held-Evans’ subsequent shout-out in her Sunday Superlatives (for “Best Conversation Starter in the Blogosphere”) have generated a throng of readers and a string of interesting comments, most of which seem to be [...]

Facebook’s “Disappearing Mothers”: The New Form of Women’s Self Effacement?

Last week Tina Brown, editor of The Daily Beast and Newsweek, dished out her latest “must-reads” for NPR, this time on the subject of “The Modern Woman.”  Financial Times writer Katie Roiphe’s article, “Disappearing mothers,” was on Brown’s short list, [...]

Happy Father’s Day!

When I was fifteen, my dad took me to Russia and Europe to fulfill a promise he had made to each of us kids: we could each have one trip of our choice to anywhere in the world. At the [...]

Previous Posts

The Oklahoma Tornadoes: A Continuation in Our Christian Meterology Series
Yesterday the devastating news poured in over National Public Radio as I was in the kitchen making dinner: four tor

posted 10:38:06am May. 21, 2013 | read full post »

Mental Health Break- "The Mission" with Ennio Moriccone
The soundtrack to the movie, "The Mission"- about a group of Jesuit missio

posted 1:10:49pm May. 19, 2013 | read full post »

Saturday Silliness: Alternate Titles for Grace Sticks
After finishing Barbara Brown Taylor's Leaving Church- more thoughts on this wonderful book later- I picked up Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (Reading Kali

posted 10:16:06am May. 18, 2013 | read full post »

Comedy Central Bible Study
Every Friday morning I lead a little support group/Bible study/worship service/open confessional/gripe session/gossip fest at a local assisted living center. When the friendly neighborhood "workplace chaplain" shows up, she is greeted usually by the same women. There are the atheist depressive an

posted 10:58:39am May. 17, 2013 | read full post »

Official Release of "Mom in the Mirror" Today
Today marks the official release of friend Emily Wierenga's book, Mom in the Mirror. Wierenga, a former anorexic, and Dena Cabrera, an expert on eating disorders, teamed up to write a book that tackles issues of post-pregnancy body image for any woman who has struggled in this area. But the book

posted 10:27:51am May. 16, 2013 | read full post »


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