“Keep your shoulders pointed forward, downhill” Jonathan kept saying. We were skiing last Sunday, and his patience was starting to wear thin. The ungroomed runs were scaring me so I was taking big wide turns, side to side, rather than short quick turns downhill. I had two choices: keep thinking about end-of-day hot choccolate (and [...]
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“11 o’clock Sunday morning is the most segregated hour of the week … And the Sunday school is still the most segregated school.”
–Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963
It’s been over 45 years since King’s statement challenging Christians to think about diversity in our churches. This article in Time magazine, Religion and Race: Can Megachurches Bridge [...]
“We had quite a media storm when we learned that a parent of a kindergarten student in our school was earning a living as a stripper and we asked her to either give up that profession or withdraw her child from our school. Since that day, life has had many twists and turns for Christina [...]
I was nine years old when Jaycee Lee Dugard was snatched off her street in South Lake Tahoe. I, like her, had long blonde hair and snaggled adult teeth that hadn’t yet been straightened by braces. We probably would have been interested in the same things: Barbies, helping mom cook, books. But unlike Jaycee, I [...]
I know that I skip around a lot on my blog. Somedays you might find my deepest thoughts and fears, and on other days you’ll find my light musings on cake or cow milking. I like this blog because it’s my forum for sharing what goes on in my life–the mundane, the deep, the silly, [...]
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