Laugh in translation
I laughed out loud to discover that the verse in the New Living Translation (NLT) which reads: “You guided my conception and formed me in the womb.” (Job 10:10)… … reads as follows in more literal...
View ArticleOn the fourth day
In the beginning of the week, the cupboards were bare and empty. And the woman said “Let there be shopping!” And there was shopping: bread and milk and coffee and fruit and every green thing filled the...
View ArticleTruth in the details
“Mom, can I have a quesadilla?” Instead of my usual retorts (“No, it’s 4:30pm and I’m serving dinner soon”, “Sorry, quesadillas aren’t on the menu tonight”, “It’s may I have a quesadilla, not can I” –...
View ArticleGarden-variety God-thoughts: growth
We planted our first vegetable garden when I was three months pregnant. We pushed those little, dry, brown seeds of hope into that dark soil, and then we waited. Sun, water, time. Sun, water, time. And...
View ArticleLife as Dorcas: My Name As Gift, Burden and Calling
Today’s post is from my incredibly talented and kind friend, Dorcas Cheng-Tozun. I LOVE the way Dorcas lives her life, thinks purposefully, and crafts her words so beautifully to express things. I am...
View ArticleWho put the X in Xmas?
I have a page of notes in front of me: preparation for a talk from the Psalms and the Gospel of John. The page is full of tiny writing, and – in keeping with the shorthand custom I learned while at...
View ArticleCelebrating The Chutzpah of Crazy Jewish Moms
Confession: following Crazy Jewish Mom on Instagram is one of my social media guilty pleasures. Kate Seigel created the account just a few months ago, and already has nearly half a million followers....
View ArticleWomen, Leadership & The Bible
Confession: When I heard that a book called “Women, Leadership and The Bible” had been released, my first thought was “just what we need… ANOTHER pushy book on women in the church.” But this is not...
View ArticleA Hell of a Tone of Voice (Some thoughts on how we talk about what happens...
A while back, I was asked to participate in a panel answering questions about heaven and hell. The group had spent a couple weeks in a series looking at what Scripture says about what happens after we...
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