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Allison Vander Broek

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Raising Kids, Duggar Style

As an avid watcher of all sorts of reality television, particularly anything related to American religion, I’d been on the lookout for Jill Dillard’s memoir,

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Exploring and Expanding Vocation

This academic year I was invited to join a professional development group exploring vocation at the university where I work. Our goal for the year

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Poverty, by America

A few years ago, a friend and I read Matthew Desmond’s Evicted, and even years later, it’s still one of the best books I’ve read.

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Welcome to Heaven

There are a series of TikTok videos I’ve been getting on my For You Page these last couple of months. In classic TikTok fashion, I

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Riches and Racism

Last week I finished reading Jim Freeman’s Rich Thanks to Racism, adding another book to my list of bleak reads on the state of America.

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Thank You for Being Born

Still feeling a little burned out from the fall semester last month, I treated myself to a day off last month and wandered into a

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