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Living Sacrifices

On Tuesday morning, I was sipping iced tea at a coffee shop with Leroy when he asked me, “What does Romans 12:3” say? I was a little surprised since he should know that although I have multiple Bible and theology degrees, I can’t recite every verse on demand. I covered my inability to answer, though, by asking my own question: “Why'd you ask?” He nodded toward a young man at the counter who was ordering a latte. I looked closely, and just behind and below his ear was tatt

Reconciliation

On Friday night, Leroy and I saw the new film “Glass Castle.” The reviews have been so-so, but we like Woody Harrelson and the trailer intrigued us. It’s based on the childhood of Jeanette Walls, a former gossip reporter and writer for MSNBC. Walls was raised in poverty within a spectacularly dysfunctional family. Her father was brilliant, creative, alcoholic and abusive. Her mother was an artist who enabled her husband and generally neglected her four children. Jeanett

In the same boat

Have you ever seen a ghost? The disciples of Jesus thought they did. What else could it be? Their spiritual beliefs told them that the sea was a deep, dark mysterious place inhabited by scary spirit creatures. Their logic told them that people don’t walk on water. Therefore, the shadowy figure approaching them in storm on the sea must have been a ghost. Boo! At the edge of the Sea of Galilee today, you can see tourists with cameras taking photos of one another as they a

Leftovers

Did you carry your lunch to school when you were a kid? My mom never understood that I didn’t like sandwiches. Peanut butter and jelly, or bologna, it didn’t matter. I would push aside the sandwich, looking for my Cheetos and my Hoho or Little Debbie, and then toss the sandwich and the bag out together. Some kids brought their lunch in metal boxes decorated with super heroes; others paid their thirty-five cents for goulash or gray baked chicken and creamed corn; but I was

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