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Kate Kooyman

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A Call for New Rituals

Our family had to quarantine this week. We thought we might have been exposed to COVID, because of the sickness of a close neighbor whose

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This is Going to Hurt

I felt stupid and scared this week, and I took it out on a well-meaning white guy.  Here’s what happened: I was working as part

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Being Kind, Being Racist

My son has discovered a love of birds.  It happened after I gave him a thrifted copy of a bird book. It wasn’t long before

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I Don’t Want Peace

I had a professor in seminary who was the first to reveal to me that sanitized picture of Martin Luther King that we have created

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Screentime: A Reckoning

We keep having the same conversation while we are adventuring around the country. It’s about technology and our kids. My sons both have (extremely old)

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Christmas Alone

This was a strange, lonely Christmas for our family.  We’ve been traveling for a little more than four months now — and we’re far enough

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Another Kind of Seeing

“Being really in love with someone is sort of like seeing them the way they ought to be seen,” Robinson says. “And the fact that

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Blessed and Grateful

“Blessed are the grateful” was a phrase that was used in the church I visited this week, and it made me think of this blog.

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