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Gone From My Sight
This is my mother, Peggy Stansell. Today she is cancer-free. She died early this morning while holding my father’s hand.
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Choreographing a Crisis
neelyssimpson:This is a great post written by my friend, Ashley-Anne Masters, who lost her mother to cancer back in January. Ashley-Anne is a pastor and hospital chaplain, so she is very familiar with...
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My Letter To My Congressmen
After the government shutdown on Tuesday, it took every ounce of self-control I possessed to squelch the fierce desire to throw a huge, ugly social media hissy fit. I sat on my hands for a while trying...
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Dance in the Graveyards
The dance sped up, and the dancers with it. Bod was breathless, but he could not imagine the dance ever stopping: the Macabray, the dance of the living and the dead, the dance with Death . . . Each of...
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The Painting Table — Guest Post and Giveaway
Roger Hutchison is Canon for Children’s Ministries at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia, SC. In his vocation, he has been privileged to gather around the Painting Table with those experiencing...
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A Little Whine With My Slice of Life
It [Grace] is unearned love — the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It’s the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered...
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Why I Haven’t Been Going to Church
“Why haven’t you been going to church lately?” It’s a question I’ve been getting a lot recently in one form or another. I even received it from an atheist friend not too long ago, which caused me to...
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Some Pushback From Last Week’s Post & Thoughts On Setting Boundaries
I received some pushback on last week’s blog post, Why I Haven’t Been Going to Church. I asked the sender, who is a good friend and someone who has known me since I was a kid, for permission to share...
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Gird Up Your Loins
My friend, L.G. Kelso, who writes fantasy and contemporary novels, invited me to write a guest post about the challenges of the writing process. So, I wrote about why life and writing are hard, and why...
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Why I Use Birth Control
I got to be a contributor to Rachel Held Evans’s blog this week. The post is titled, “Why I Use Birth Control”: 11 Women Speak Up.
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My Letter to the Justice Department and Ferguson Chief of Police
Over the last couple of days I’ve watched in horror as events in Ferguson, Missouri have escalated and become the stuff of dystopian novels — militarized police with tanks and full riot gear attacking...
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Pregnancy, Depression, and Me
The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality . . . – Andrew Solomon This past summer my husband, Dave, who’s a horticulturalist with a passion for public gardens, was offered a really cool...
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The Bible is Not Anti-Gay
neelyssimpson:I’m reblogging this in light of last week’s SCOTUS ruling on marriage equality. I’m delighted, obviously! #Lovewins! Also, the media these days would have you believe that the Christian...
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Sage
The last three weeks of my mother’s life were filled with sacred conversations, which I carry with me like a child clutching a security blanket. One in particular still murmurs past my cheek, whirling...
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Manna in the Valley of Dry Bones
The past two years have felt like being trapped in a snow globe continuously shaken by an especially aggressive toddler. There was the transition of course. Moves are hard. Change is never easy. On top...
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Voice of Dissent
The result of last Tuesday’s election shook me to the core. As many have already expressed, it wasn’t that my candidate lost. No. It was that on Tuesday night, hate-filled ideology seems to have won....
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