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Debra Rienstra

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None But the Angels

You know those times when you do an extra good job on something, even when you understand that no one will appreciate or even notice

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I’m Giving Up Boorishness for Lent

A couple weeks ago, fellow Twelver Jeff Munroe confessed his fondness for Downton Abbey, the gorgeous, Brit-made, upstairs-downstairs soap opera that American viewers have swooned

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Retreat

Last week my mother spent a night in the hospital because of atrial fibrillation.  Her heart gets out of rhythm, and it needs to be

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Let’s Give in and Make It Fun

It’s only January and already I can’t stand another minute of “news coverage” of the presidential race.  I have stopped listening to the yammering—from the

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Vocation: Bah, Humbug

I apologize for passing over the many great posts since Theresa’s post on vocation, but I’d like to go back to that topic—which seems to

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Rally Around

Books lying around the house are never safe from my readerly omnivory.  So naturally I grabbed up the book my husband received from his brother

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Little Pagans

I spent this first week of Advent thinking about idolatry.  It started with a This American Life podcast on the Penn State disaster, in which

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