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Marilyn McEntyre

A former professor of Literature and Medical Humanities, Marilyn McEntyre leads retreats and workshops, coaches writers, and teaches in a D.Min. program at Western Theological Seminary. Her books include Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies and Word by Word. More at marilynmcentyre.com.

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Dr. Ida

God unmistakably did call Dr. Ida. Though she was determined not to follow her father and his seven siblings into RCA mission work, determined not to spend her life in "dirty, dusty" India, she found she could do nothing else after being present one night at the successive deaths of three women in childbirth because their husbands refused for cultural and religious reasons to allow male doctors to attend them. As she heard the funeral drums the morning after all…
Marilyn McEntyre
July 15, 2024
Poetry

Fallowing

Fallowing soil is a method of sustainable land management used by farmers for centuries and a way of thinking about the work the heart requires.
Marilyn McEntyre
March 9, 2021