Category: Blog

A Slippery Slope

Sin can be a slippery slope. I can still picture it, the baseboard that ran along the outer side of stairwell. I was a kid

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May Thoughts

Back when I joined the Perspectives magazine Board of Editors in 2000 (which even now does not sound all that long ago), I was struck

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Mother’s Day

Gotta admit, Mother’s Day is not my favorite holiday. Nothing whatsoever against my mother, mothers in general, or mother as a concept. Not even if

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Loosening Our Grip

In my past life I was a high school baseball coach. I remember trying to teach 14-15 year old kids to pitch. Most of them

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Welcoming the Stranger

It will probably be obvious once you begin reading that I am not Theresa if for no other reason than I refer to being a

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Grateful Teaching

Yesterday was Teacher Appreciation Day (don’t worry—you can keep celebrating since the whole week is Teacher Appreciation Week).  And if you’re a teacher, there’s lot

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Change

It was a facetious question. More or less. “Have you ever considered planting churches that are very intentionally open and affirming of LGBT folk? Given

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