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Month: January 2019

Until What Affects Them Affects You

January 4, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Originally posted on August 24th, 2017 by my friend Jennifer Phillips and later by our local paper, this was my response to the white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, VA and President Trump’s comments about them.

I wasn’t alive in 1962 for the Cuban missile crisis. The only part of the Cold War I lived through was too consumed with Knight Rider and G.I. Joe’s for me to absorb any of the concerns over Soviet Union nukes. But I think it’s fair to say that the Cold War created an ambient terror in America. A low-grade, incessant concern hung in the air that something radically life-altering could happen at any time. [ . . . ]  [read more]

Remembering Chuck

January 4, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Originally posted on July 25, 2014.

When I sat down on the front porch to talk with Chuck Tannery, neither of us could have anticipated the transformation God intended for our hour together. It was the first time we had any extended conversation. Since I lived down the street, our most frequent interaction was an exhausted wave as I jogged by with our toddlers in the running stroller. This was supposed to be an equally brief wave, a quick stop on the way somewhere else, but God had a different itinerary for my day. [ . . . ]  [read more]

The Color of Grace

January 4, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Originally posted on August 1, 2014, when the big kids were 8, 7, and 7 years old.

In preparation for my family’s return home from time with grandparents, I’ve been painting over the “scribble-scrabble,” as my children call it, that is scrawled all over the upstairs bedrooms of our home.  [ . . . ]  [read more]

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