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Book Review: Bound for Oregon
Jean Van Leeuwen This was based on the true story of a girl named Mary Ellen Todd who made the journey on...
Christmas for Beginners – Day 3
The Fall Just the gist (for small children and others with tiny attention spans): Adam and Eve disobeyed God and were asked to leave paradise. Thankfully, the story didn’t end there. God promised to send a savior who would reopen the...
Christmas for Beginners – Day 2
The Creation of Adam and Eve Just the gist (for small children and others with tiny attention spans): God created Adam and Eve. For those that can handle just a bit more: “Then the Lord formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the...
Christmas for Beginners – Day 1
Creation Just the gist (for small children and others with tiny attention spans): From nothing, God created everything. For those that can handle just a bit more: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void,...
Happy Feast Day of Saint Andrew the Apostle
This is Saint Andrew, Saint Peter’s brother and one of Jesus’s apostles. He was the first called. And though he wasn’t renamed and had God’s church built on him, he didn’t let it come between he and Peter at the family Thanksgiving get together. In fact, he gave Peter...
Christmas for Beginners, An Introduction:
Like many parents, I wanted my children to keep the actual meaning of Christmas at the forefront of their mind during Advent. This is no small task living in a culture that is...
Happy Feast of Saint Cecilia (November 22)
This is my confirmation saint. Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians. I was in band and under the impression that I would graduate and play in a symphony even though I wasn’t even first chair in a high school band class. If only I’d known back then...
Die Hard: How It Ultimately Shows Our Hunger for the Living God
It's that time of year - Christmas music in the air, the smell of pine filling the house, tenderly wrapping gifts for loved ones and arguing to the death over whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Behold, the indisputable proof: It’s a theme repeated over and...
A Not-So-Great Defense of King David
I recently read through a discussion on social media about King David. The argument being made was the very notion that the church would hold King David in any kind of esteem proved just how anti-woman and patriarchal the church is. He used his...
The Absolutely Mortifying Mortification of Absolution
I committed a sin that was particularly embarrassing for me. Whenever I commit a sin that is particularly embarrassing, I think of the early Christians who used to stand up and do their...