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For the Youth Group Kid Leaving Home

It is the summer of your senior year, and you will spend it at the beach with your youth group. Around you, the sky will turn to dusk as you play Ultimate Frisbee, eat a hot dog straight from the … Continue reading

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Church Cliques, Lego Blocks and Making Room for Love

When we got back to America, all I wanted was to find a church. We had been in China for a year teaching English. The town we lived in was far enough away from the Big City to make our foreign … Continue reading

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Making Manifest [Book Reflection & Giveaway]

During my Very Hard Year, I meet the church ladies every Thursday morning at a coffee shop. It was dark when I drove there and dark when I left, and in between, there was a fill-in-the-blank Bible study on the … Continue reading

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