Questioning how we are helping
Our family friends from Sudan -- that I have written about in my writersmommusings blog http://writermommusings.blogspot.com/2009/07/week-6-adventure-helping-others-summer.html over the past years, the family whom we have had the amazing opportunity to reach out to...
If you died today, what would die with you – Donald Miller’s question to us
Saturday night I attended Donald Miller's A Million Miles Tour at Grace Chapel in Wilsonville Oregon and it was just a fun night. I sat in the front row and he was on the same level as the audience and I asked him if he was moving up higher and he said no, but that...
Chinese children forced away from parents for lucrative foreign adoptions
I've always been so upset when I hear about the one child per family law and forced abortion and abandoned girls in China because everyone wants their boy to pass on the family name. And here in America you hear of happy stories of families adopting children from...
The Poet Billy Collins
While reading my edition of the Books & Culture review published by the same company that publishes Christianity Today, there was an advertisement about an upcoming Conference for Christian Thinkers that intrigued me. It was to be held in Nashville and the guest...
Is it a Christian Novel? Oh, then it’s boring -ouch!
I was at the church library to get some books for my husband to read to our 6-year-old. My husband had asked for some new books as he was getting tired of the same old same old. As I looked around, I also thought of our 11 year old twin sons who love a good story. The...
Thoughts on “Big Church” and kids and kids leaving the faith
I have heard of a statistic that notes how a large majority of kids are leaving the faith as they get beyond high school and move on to collegiate life. I think of church life sometimes and have to wonder: So much of our church is segregated times. The grade schoolers...
One Hundred Everyday Moments
I had to go to a writing meeting tonight so I was not able to eat dinner with the family, but I did not want to miss what was happening at home. I did not want to miss the ordinary extraordinary. Rachel’s friend had come over and I had initially thought they were...
Sudan woman gets arrested for wearing pants
If you are a woman in America, count your blessings for the pants in your closet and the ability to wear them, as silly as that may seem. Other women in other countries are not as fortunate. Take Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein, a journalist who works for the media department...
Future King to the People: Walk more and use public transportation
I found this recent article about Prince Charles intriguing - walk more and use public transportation - and he is in England where public transportation is used so much more than where I live- I live in the suburbs and we talk about green living and we use the lingo...
Home in Trent’s World
When Tyler plays fetch with Indie the dog and Peanut the cat, Trent just laughs and laughs. “And sometimes I will put the ball near Trent and act like he is throwing the ball and he laughs at that. He loves making voices, impersonating movies. During his freshman year...
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