This Week’s Top Blog Posts

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Excerpts from some of my favorite blog posts this week. Click on the links to read the entire post, and, as always, I’ve tried to find engaging posts as well as things that might challenge your thinking a little bit. Enjoy!

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Here’s what I did in the NICU: I simultaneously begged God to heal my son and I told God to go to hell.

There’s a good chance I lost half my audience with that one piece of honesty. But I’m not a good marketer and I’m an even worse Christian.

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The assignment I was referring to on Instagram was offered to me by National Geographic Channel. My job? To travel as the exclusive writer/photographer on a trip around the world with Morgan Freeman.

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What Nate is reminding me again and again is you can feel like an exile and still be elect. You can be chosen by God for a purpose and a plan, even one that doesn’t makes sense and keeps you far from “your people” and feels uncomfortable.
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“You’re blessed when you’re at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.”

How can this be?

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I’ve said this before. It’s difficult to “see” things as racist or racialized when the systems have always been designed and created for the success and flourishing of white people – even as the category of “white” evolves.

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Church every week was a protest, it was resistance, it was a gathering in the darkness, and a way to be given life and light.

 

2 Replies to “This Week’s Top Blog Posts”

  1. Click on the links to read the entire post, and, as always, I’ve tried to find engaging posts as well as things that might challenge your thinking a little bit. Where is this information?

    1. Each selection has some underlined words at the end – if you click on those underlined words, it will take you to the full post.

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