Tag Archives: faith
Gentle Conviction: Debate Like a Christian Should
The internet is an interesting and often frustrating place. It feeds our natural inclination for narcism, it is often illusory and deceptive, and it tends to feed a beast within us of hostility in disagreements where we write quickly, unkindly, and with an intent to win arguments and share our own opinions, rather than to discourse […]
Autumn and Death
Fall is here, in all its spectacular color and chill. And despite the pumpkin overkill, the onslaught of Ugg boots, and the flood of leaves carefully filtered on Instagram, I really do love Fall. Not just for the beautiful kaleidoscope of colors changing, or the respite of cold after a long and hot summer, or the […]
Hands and Feet and Life and Death
If you’ve been anywhere near the internet recently you have heard all about the videos circulating that condemn Planned Parenthood and their (now admitted) practice of altering abortion procedures to procure fetal tissue and “donating” (a debatable position) it for biomedical research. You may not have watched the videos for yourself (which I urge you to […]
Your Vote is Not Enough
The political aspect of the abortion debate is certainly an important one, and if you have not yet contacted your politicians regarding investigating and stopping federal funding of Planned Parenthood, do that now. And if you are not yet convinced that being Pro-life is an issue that should be important to both parties, watch the videos, […]
The Tension of Two Worlds
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. -Fredrick Buechner The current events that have been flooding my news feeds have been like a landslide of grief. I’ve felt as though the pile-on of sorrow, wickedness, and hypocrisy have been so persistent I can’t breathe. I’ve been struggling with what to write next, how […]
Oceans Never Fill 