“The Golden Compass” – 1. Boycotting “The Golden Compass” – 0.

The His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman – The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass – are on my To Reread This Summer List, and thinking about them always reminds me of something that really annoys me about conservative Christians. When the movie The Golden Compass came out, a TON of [...]

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The DPC (Dead Parents Club): Or, In Defense of Gallows Humor

Jordan was first. When my close friend Jordan – husband of my best friend Erin – told me his dad had shot himself, the whole world changed for all of us.  My mom was sick at the time, in the second year of her ultimately three-year battle with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as [...]

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“The Ragamuffin Gospel”

The five books that changed my spiritual life are: 5) The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris 4) Stranger Music by Leonard Cohen 3) Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller 2) Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis and 1) The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning If you are like me and you are the kind of person [...]

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