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Knowing when to speak up or shut up+

I like the reverberations of my own voice. This is the non-scientific conclusion I came to after taking stock of...

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Silencing the prophets+

My Christmas Day lectionary reading brought me to Isaiah 62 and its bold opening: “For Zion’s sake I will not...

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Confessions of a compliant voter+

It felt like a case of stage fright. Usually, quick with words to express my thoughts in writing, I got...

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The elusiveness of happiness+

Everyone, from the richest to the poorest, past to the present, has wanted to be happy. It is an obsessive,...

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Even if…, God is Good+

It was my own fault for bringing God into the conversation as I did. So when I told my child...

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Apologetics can taste so good+

ONE My first attempt at angel food cake was anything but angelic. Five minutes after I slid the pan into...

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The Mystic Mystery+

After paging through my draft proposal and talking through my idea for a book about experiencing God’s mysterious, glorious presence...

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When it’s Good to be Unknown+

Helen Nissenbaum of New York University has a bright idea about privacy law on the Internet. If a user intends...

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Doubting Christ in college+

I’ve made it an annual ritual to read G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy. He described it as his spiritual autobiography that chronicles...

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