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Archive for the ‘apologetics’ Category
Hearing from God: placebo or reality?
May 16th, 2012 by Jonalyn
Sanford anthropologist, Tanya Luhrmann, author of When God Talks Back, explained in a recent Christianity Today article “Why Women Hear from God more than Men Do.” Why? First, women pray more. According to the 2008 Pew and Religious Landscape surgery 2/3 of women pray daily compared to less than 1/2 of men. Combing frequency this [...]
Tags: apologetics, spiritual growth
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Female: Apologist?
April 18th, 2012 by Jonalyn
Apologists have earned a reputation for being obnoxious know-it-alls. I should know. I am an apologist. Apologetics can easily become the Christian sport where you watch your team fight and hopefully smear the rival. So why would women aspire to become apologists? Female apologists are curiosities, somewhat like female wrestlers. Female: apologist? What the what? [...]
Tags: apologetics, loving Jesus, politics
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Sharing Your Faith . . . Without Losing Your Friends
November 2nd, 2011 by Jonalyn
Talking about God is more like slicing carrots than cooking them. You’ve got to be careful with that knife and the more time you take the better. Pressure does great things for cooking carrots and building faith, but it does nothing for sharing it. Pressure Free If we’re pressured for time, friends or approval, we [...]
Tags: apologetics, food, loving Jesus, spiritual growth
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Coffee Shop Conversations: Making the Most of Spiritual Small Talk
September 28th, 2011 by Jonalyn
Have you found it difficult to talk to others about your faith? Dale and I realized we needed to think harder and write more on this subject. A few years I authored “Boutique Religion” a Fledge series (spiritual formation articles on how to be Positively Human) with tips on communicating Jesus’ message to those we [...]
Tags: apologetics, friendship, reviews, spiritual growth, writing/speaking
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In Pain . . . Blessed are You
July 26th, 2011 by Jonalyn
Now I know Jesus wasn’t a masochist, but when a childhood friend drops you like a hot potato, when she tries to hurt you and talks behind your back, when she makes your life miserable and you consider unfriending her on facebook (gasp!) when you want to move toIceland to get away, where does Jesus get [...]
Tags: apologetics, loving Jesus, pain, spiritual growth, vulnerability
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Evangelical Feminist?
July 10th, 2011 by Jonalyn
Caryn Rivandeniera posts on the trouble with Democrats including evangelical feminists as serious biz at Her-meneutics blog hosted by Christianity Today. My favorite quote came when she pulled from Anne Graham Lotz (Bill Graham’s daughter), a woman who has had men turn their backs to her while she spoke to mixed audiences. In her Washington [...]
Tags: apologetics, feminin/masculin-ity, Gender Studies, loving Jesus, politics
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Beauty will save the world
June 30th, 2011 by Jonalyn
Today I’m wearing a shirt from Image that says “Beauty will save the world.” Gregory Wolfe, who recently penned a book with this title, lifted this enigmatic phrase from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “Nobel Lecture” who in turn borrowed it from Dostoevsky. I’m wicked tired, so I’m not really illustrating that with my haggard face, unless, of [...]
Tags: beauty
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