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One Naked Woman and a Mid-Life Crisis

What is it about mid-life that reminds me of adolescence? Is it the same for you? I spent my teen-age years watching friends make decisions that either looked wise and potentially fruitful or spectacularly stupid and likely to end in rehab, jail time or living in a one-room basement apartment at their parents’ house spending …[ read more ]

Diligence at the Door

“Turn the light on! Turn the light on!” My husband had just come from the porch and crawled into bed. “All right. I’ll turn it on! What’s the problem?” I switched on the light. “That! Where did that come from? It was crawling on me!” He pointed at a black lightning bug escaping from his …[ read more ]

The Steps that Led Me to Murder

Sometimes we think we’re so righteous. Sometimes we think there are things we wouldn’t do. But often it’s not because we’re so good that we don’t yield to more temptation but because our experiences are so limited, so sheltered, so privileged. I thought about that the day I tried to kill our lizards. One of …[ read more ]

A Parable of Haiti, The American Church, and the Scandal of Responding to Those In Need

Today’s parable: A group of American Christians come upon a great pile of rubble. From beneath the rubble, they hear the cries and screams of a poor Haitian church that has been buried by the earthquake. “Help us!” They cry. “We have been here so long without help! Help us!” “Of course,” cry the American …[ read more ]

Changing Paper Towels for God

“I don’t get you at all.” The gentleman remarked to me. “You have more joy than you have a right to! Sometimes, it kind of ticks me off because I just don’t get it.” It sounds like he was being rude to me but I knew he was honestly baffled. I work a part-time job …[ read more ]