“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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Ten Teenagers In One Room For a Year.

Because I am my mother’s daughter, I frequently choose to do things for no other reason than a patronizing exasperation at how poorly someone else is doing them, and a conviction that I am the only person who can do it better, or at all. I am of the oh-for-heaven’s-sake-just- give-me-that-and-let-me-do-it-for-you school of . . [...]

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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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Books and Music

Books and music, some straightforwardly Christian/Catholic, and some slightly more off-the-beaten-track, which have heavily influenced my faith, spirituality & relationship with God – including, but not limited to: The Beatles, cookbooks, Islamic poetry, “Angels In America,” a song about Walla Walla by my friend Mollie, Broadway musicals, a song comparing God to both chocolate and [...]

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Luke 2:1-14

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to the [...]

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Gaudete . . . Rejoice!

Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, rejoice; let your forbearance be known to all, for the Lord is near at hand; have no anxiety about anything, but in all things, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be known to God. The third Sunday of Advent, when we light the [...]

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