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What’s a nice egalitarian woman like you doing in a complementarian church? When we started attending this church a year and a half ago, a friend said to me, “You know they’re Gospel Coalition people, right?” Yes, I did know.…
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Review: The Seraph Seal
I’m not much of a fiction reader, but when I saw Leonard Sweet’s name on the cover of this book, I decided to give it a spin*. Co-written with Lori Wagner, The Seraph Seal (Thomas Nelson, 2011) is a genre-blurring…
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The taste of daily bread
“Our driver is running a few minutes late. Is that O.K.?” The voice on the other end of the phone waited for my answer. What was I supposed to say? I’d been sitting in an office with nothing much to…
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At The Table: A Reading For Two Voices
Once upon a time, I used to write a lot of readings for use during church services. Some of the pieces were meant to tell a story in a unique way, other readings were simply a creative division of a…
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Trying to look on the sunny side
“My husband reads your blog, and he commented that you seem to have a lot of complaints about the Church,” a friend told me recently. A number of responses came to mind, mostly of the “Well, yeah” and “No duh”…
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The electric fence
“I’m wondering if you and your husband have run into issues of sexual sin among any of the leaders in your congregation.” My query paused the conversation while my friend reviewed her experiences in the last year or so since…