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Posts Tagged ‘spiritual growth’
Why I Do and Don’t Practice Zen
May 23rd, 2012 by Jonalyn
I saw the painter at our (nearly finished!) house before he saw me. His hat read “Bikes not Bombs.” I complimented his work and he talked about how painting was like baking bread, his previous job. “It is so easy, it’s hard,” he said. I made an unusual step for a Christian apologist and said, [...]
Tags: apologetics, spiritual growth
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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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What can I do about Sex Slavery?
April 25th, 2012 by Jonalyn
We don’t like to think of ourselves as a country where sex slaves live behind walls in our town. Much less appealing is the idea that we’re accomplices in the sexual slavery in the United States. Since it’s National Child Abuse Prevention Month (between 500 million and 1.5 billion children are estimated to experience violence annually), since our local [...]
Tags: abuse, body, feminin/masculin-ity, feminism, pain, prejudice, sex, spiritual growth
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Why I Believe in Regrets
April 4th, 2012 by Jonalyn
I’ve met people who say they live with “no regrets.” Frankly, I just don’t get that. Doesn’t regret mean “wishing you had done something differently”? Don’t we all wish we’d done some things differently? Maybe Christians tend to be so delighted when God uses our mistakes we forget that our mistakes were, well, mis-steps. Regret [...]
Tags: family, pain, spiritual growth, vulnerability
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Fight Fair: How to Argue Without Destroying Others (and Yourself)
March 7th, 2012 by Jonalyn
My parent’s celebrated their 34th wedding anniversary last weekend with a trip to Disneyland. I got a text of my mother riding Space Mountain with my tall father beside her. They were smiling in glee. I feel their faithfulness to each other remains a diamond-gift to their four children. When I got married over 10 [...]
Tags: friendship, marriage, spiritual growth
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Practical Rest: When Busy Women Welcome Sabbath
February 1st, 2012 by Jonalyn
You know I care about resting, that I try to practice Sabbath rest. But I don’t practice faithfully or consistently. In other words, I’m always looking for better ways to practice rest. One reader of RubySlippers, a woman I met at a speaking engagement in New Hampshire recently explains how she rests. As a mother [...]
Tags: family, food, motherhood, spiritual growth
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New Year Wantings & Co-Parenting Safely Through Rapids
January 11th, 2012 by Jonalyn
Dale doesn’t think new year resolutions are all they’re cracked up to be. I tend to disagree, mainly because I’m a lover of opportunities to change in grandiose ways, ways I can write about and check up on. Dale is a changer in bits and pieces, he’s also big on changing when the need arises. [...]
Tags: envy, family, feminin/masculin-ity, Gender Studies, marriage, motherhood, spiritual growth
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