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There's a prayer most of us have never said out loud. It goes something like this: I don't want you to be kind to them. I don't mean enemies in the abstract. I mean one specific person. The…
Your kid used to narrate everything. The whole bus ride, who said what at lunch, the inexplicable politics of the fourth grade. Now you get "fine." And you're doing the math in the front se…
The news this week was loud again. You know the shape of it by now. Something happens, and inside four hours everyone you've ever met has a settled position on it, and by Friday half of them…
Here's the objection, and I'm not going to soften it. Prayer doesn't work. Not in any way you could test. Two families sit in the same waiting room. Both pray. One gets the scan back clear,…
You've seen it on a mug. "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you wil…
Here's a question that splits kitchens. Your dad has died, or the job went, or the scan came back wrong. Your kids are nine and six. Do you let them see it? Christians disagree about this, …
Most people's week doesn't fall apart on Thursday. It falls apart on Sunday afternoon, somewhere around four o'clock, when the light changes and the laundry is still in the machine and you r…