Michelle Van Loon

Author: Michelle Van Loon

  • The more things change…

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      A few observations: (1) This was the last time I let my hair go wild and free, Jew-fro style, until I kicked my blow-drying addiction last summer. (2) Those Levis look as though they might fall right off of me. (3) The yearbook photog caught me in an unfortunate sneer, but I was smiling…

  • Parents, you can not predict the future. You know that, right?

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    I had one of those time-transcending moments last night in a warehouse in Chicago. Travel back in time with me for a moment, to 1995. My thee children, then ages 12, 10 and 9 and I have started another typical home school day. Breakfast, a few chores, prayer, then the day’s instructions, which invariably included…

  • Falling Upward, Chapter 3

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    I’m blogging through Richard Rohr’s Falling Upward: A Spirituality Through The Two Halves Of Life. Even if you haven’t read the book, please stick around and join the conversation here if you’re facing a mid-life transition. Father Rohr offers us all some meaty food for thought. Click here to read the introduction to the series.…

  • Falling Upward, Chapter 2

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    I’m blogging through Richard Rohr’s Falling Upward: A Spirituality Through The Two Halves Of Life. Even if you haven’t read the book, please stick around and join the conversation here if you’re facing a mid-life transition. Father Rohr offers us all some meaty food for thought. Click here to read the introduction to the series.…

  • Book review: Noah Primeval

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    We’ve turned a story of a flesh-and-blood man standing apart from his own decaying culture into a nursery decoration. Brian Godawa has torn the cutesy pastel version of the Noah story off of the nursery wall in an attempt to help modern-day readers remember that Noah and his family were three dimensional people struggling to…

  • Falling Upward, Chapter 1

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    I’m blogging through Richard Rohr’s Falling Upward: A Spirituality Through The Two Halves Of Life. Click here to read the first post in the series. In the first chapter of his book, Father Rohr seeks to help his readers understand the nature of those two halves of life. If the first half of life is…