Our cat died a few years ago. No need to offer me any condolences—she lived a long and happy life once we rescued her from the side of a country road. We’ve lived in our current townhouse for almost twelve years now, and there’s still evidence of our cat here: carpet torn up on the […]
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“There’s got to be a logical way to explain this Christmas thing.”– Jack Skellington, from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Why did God even come? Why expose God’s very self to the wild elements of humanity: the discomfort, the sickness, the hurt, the sadness, and all that goes along with our soft and vulnerable flesh? At […]
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I’m not a get-in-the-water type of person. I’d rather walk along the shoreline, getting my feet wet instead of swimming out into the open. Better yet, let me sit on a beach chair on the dampened sand with a novel in my hand and a fizzy water by my side. But when we headed out […]
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It didn’t occur to me to pair my love of reading to my job at church until my husband suggested I start a book club. It was not a suggestion that needed much deliberation beyond a gasp of instant excitement and a plunge forward into planning the details. I called it the “Faith and Fiction […]
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A small group of ladies at my church have been meeting once a week to read and discuss Learning to Walk in the Dark, by Barbara Brown Taylor. Every Thursday evening we hop on a zoom call and reflect upon God, and the role of light and darkness in our lives. Carolyn suggested we meet […]
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A few years ago, an incredible exhibit came to the New Children’s Museum here in San Diego. One part treehouse, one part labyrinth, it’s called The Wonder Sound and it was designed by Wes Bruce. When my boys and I first stumbled upon it, my eyes widened in delight. The structure is full of whimsy, […]
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Shrink it and pink it! This has been a common strategy in marketing campaigns geared towards women over the years. It has backfired on a number of occasions, most notably in Bic’s pink and purple pens “for her” which were 70% more expensive than their non-gendered pens.* The pink and purple pens elicited many snarky […]
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Sarah K. Butterfield 