It started off as a normal September afternoon. I was standing at my kitchen stove, one of those janky ones with coils for burners, and my friend Luke was sitting at the table next to me while I made us dinner.
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“Through the Negro spiritual, the slaves developed the patience to wait on the Lord.”
The above quote is from my eighth-grade Christian history book called America: Land I Love.
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Sometimes it helps to see your story from the safe distance of a TV screen. If not your story in particular, the story of someone whose journey is so like yours that it transcends the differences of place and time - even of faith…
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Only 11% of Americans say they’ve read the entire Bible. Fewer than 16% have read even half. These numbers are startling in a country where more than 70% of the population identifies as Christian…
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Told you it was about to get heavy.
I’d like to open this post with a parable from Neale Donald Walsch’s “Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue.” I just completed the trilogy, and while…
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Yesterday, I turned 27. (Yay!) As often happens for me around this time of year, I find myself contemplating the rabbit hole of astrology. I’ve never fully understood how…
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