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Can I Be Pretty?+

Since I was first pregnant and learned I was going to have a girl, I could feel in my bones...

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A Relationship Worth Recording+

My childhood was spent designing spaceships with legos or impersonating NBA greats on a mini hoop in my basement or...

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The Bright Sadness+

To know where we are, we must know where we have come from, and also, where we are going.  During...

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Why Messy Doesn’t Bother God+

Forget it. I’ll just let the words fall as they come. Take away the filter. Put thoughts to paper like...

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Why Mountains Teach Us About God+

It was still dark when we woke. My husband and I moved quietly through our camp, boiling water for oatmeal,...

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Entertain Me Before I Get Bored+

Martha Byrne delights in stories and so she reads them, edits them, writes them, and watches them play out in...

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The God of Big Things+

I’m no scientist. I tried to be. It took three and a half years before I realized that I’m not...

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Can I Celebrate the Thistle?+

Were there seasons in the Garden? Did Eve watch the aspens turn to gold? Was the waterfall once frozen over?...

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‘We are meaning mongers’+

Christianity is about telling the truth about ourselves. And a great deal of sin is our greed to have power...

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A better way to play “grown up”+

Junior high boys, new to the game of basketball, are all programmed the same. With a ball in their hands,...

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