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Dana VanderLugt

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Walking Away

If really want to embrace the upside economy of the Kingdom of God, how might I surrender the kind of self-importance that believes I can

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A Muddier Christmas

I need a nudge to a path that is muddier—but also wider and steadier—than the precarious tightrope of this world’s version of Christmas cheer.

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Shifting Gears

“There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life—fear of death, fear of judgment—is one

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What is Saving Your Life Now?

Near the end of her 2006 memoir, Leaving Church, Barbara Brown Taylor tells the story of being invited to speak at a gathering. “Tell us

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Saved by Work

Elizabeth and I met in 2018 in Louisville, Kentucky, where we gathered for our creative writing program’s spring residency. Having been first introduced virtually by a

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Always

Perhaps what makes the “always” so poignant is that our eventual understanding that always isn’t always.

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