31 Days of Community: Coming Clean
This is part of a series on my experience living in an intentional Christian community. I had lived in Christian homes, gone to Christian camp, attended Christian school, youth group, Christian...
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31 Days of Community Day 5 When I was a teen, my mom would take my sister and me to a church that had a soup kitchen. We would help serve the food and clean up. Sometimes we would talk to the people....
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31 Days of Community Day 7 Henri Nouwen, in his book, Reaching Out, wrote that for most of us, hospitality conjures up images of “tea parties, bland conversation, and a general atmosphere of...
View ArticleThe God of the Poor
I’m no stranger to poverty, having spent the first five years of my life in shady Philadelphia neighborhoods with an alcoholic mother who was nearly destitute. My older brothers did what they had to...
View ArticleTwitterature June 2013
I’m joining Anne Bogel and friends for a book review link up. Once a month, we write a post about what we’ve been reading, and here’s the twist–sometimes we review the books in 140 characters or...
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