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Quick to Listen
I love me my twitter and Facebook. I like being able to reconnect with old friends and to forge new and very real relationships with fascinating people. I have met and had enlightening dialogue with...
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Election season gives us no shortage of opportunities to bite our tongues or lash our neighbors with them. We are a contentious people who cling tightly to our opinions as though we might have carried...
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The Songs of Youth
I arrived a little early for Back to School night, so I drove around the block, looking at the small homes nestled in the wooded neighborhood of old Tulsa. My sports radio shows had long since gone...
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At the Corner of Faith and Politics
Photo credit: Library of Congress When it comes to faith and politics I like to carry my cynicism in one hand and my redemptive worldview in the other, sort of a six in one bucket, half dozen in the...
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Truth in the Dirt
We flew toward the pulsing skyline of Chicago, which danced in the distance like a giant, realized dream. Voices spun stories. We talked about how we approached the page, how book proposals were...
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Being Human
He is charming and kind. He laughs easily and gives openly. He has collected friends like seashells. He makes room in his world for their mess. And they are messy. They have divorces and children with...
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This week, I’m sharing about books being released by smart, faithful, thoughtful friends. Yesterday, we had an excerpt from How to Use a Runaway Truck Ramp. Today, a little bit about creativity. The...
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Brandi Chastain, Perfection and Modesty
I’ve been thinking a lot about Brandi Chastain lately. Remember her? She’s the rock star soccer player in that photo up there. She is celebrating the US Women’s victory over China in the World Cup in...
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In A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini begins with a sort of lushly sentimental tale that is just enough tinged around the edges that I am not completely surprised when the idyllic woodsy house...
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Off the Bench
Photo credit: Petr Kratochvil A long time ago, I grew tired of men arguing with me on Facebook and Twitter about sexual assault statistics on college campuses. I grew tired of explaining: rape isn’t...
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