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I am a minivan mom living in Austin, TX. Current topics swirling around my head therefore bound to end up on this blog at some point: following Jesus and making Him known among the nations, mixtapes, adoption, race issues in America, university life,
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Gifts That Keep On Giving
I just did some online Christmas shopping at my new favorite gift store, created by a friend of a friend: Bajalia Trading Company.A little about their mission and products, from their website:"Bajalia Trading Company uses trade, training and other fo...
No Better Time To Support Foster Kids
November is National Adoption Awareness Month. This post is part a series about adoption and related issues, from my perspective.Check out this great video put together by Tapestry, the adoption and foster care ministry of Irving Bible Church. For th...
10 Ways To Care For Orphans And Foster Kids
November is National Adoption Awareness Month. This post is part a series about adoption and related issues, from my perspective.When we hear of plight of orphans worldwide, one reaction many of us have is, “I want to go adopt one (or some) of them...
What Is The Meaning Of "Orphan"?
November is National Adoption Awareness Month. This post is part a series about adoption and related issues, from my perspective.Part of the controversy surrounding Madonna’s adoption of a boy and a girl from Malawi in recent years centered on whet...
Today Is Orphan Sunday
November is National Adoption Awareness Month. This post is part a series about adoption and related issues, from my perspective.The Christian Alliance for Orphans has declared today—November 8th—“Orphan Sunday”. The CAO was created to spotli...
Dangerous Women Creed
Last week I posted about the “Dangerous Women” group I’m a part of. Since then I learned that Lynne Hybels wrote a “Dangerous Women Creed” in her book Nice Girls Don’t Change the World. Maybe you’ve read the book or at least seen the Cr...
The Church And Health Care
Yesterday I posted a summary of an excellent editorial by George Barna entitled, “Jesus’ Health Care Plan”. The article reminded me of something Tony Evans wrote in his systematic theology, What A Way To Live!. He describes four concentric “c...
John Stott On Being Salt And Light
“Our Christian habit is to bewail the world’s deteriorating standards with an air of rather self-righteous dismay. We criticize its violence, dishonesty, immorality, disregard for human life, and materialistic greed. ‘The world is going down th...
How Do You Handle A Panhandler?
Every few days it happens. I pull up to a busy intersection. Stop at the red light. And there he is, flashing his cardboard sign:“Will work for food.”“Homeless vet, down on my luck.”“Anything will help. God bless you.”I struggle with how ...
Scott Rodin on The Relationship Of Money And Faith
“We must never for a single moment lose sight of the stark realization that whenever we deal with money, we are dealing with dynamite. What is one day that which we control, the next day becomes the controller.Such dynamite must be defused, and the...
BOOK REVIEW: The Hole In Our Gospel by Richard Stearns
God has used a handful of books—out of hundreds I have read—to shift my worldview to the extent they actually altered the trajectory of my life.The Hole In Our Gospel, which I just finished, is one of those books.I don’t know exactly how, or ho...
Teachers Rock!
Today was the first day of the school year for my two oldest kids. I am now officially the mother of a 1st and 2nd grader! Both boys had wonderful first day experiences.Once more I find myself extremely grateful for their teachers. Public school teac...
A Primer On White Privilege (or, Challenging The Myth Of Meritocracy)
White privilege (def.): a set of advantages enjoyed by white people beyond those commonly experienced by non-white people in the same social, political, and economic spaces. (Wikipedia)While Peggy McIntosh was associate director of the Wellesley Coll...
Real Health Care Reform
Health care in our nation might not be in such a state if more of us live our lives like Robert, a doctor in Greeneville, Tennessee. To watch his inspiring story, click here.To watch more stories of “ordinary” people changing this world for good,...
Yea For Intolerance!
I saw a guy wearing this t-shirt today and just loved it… If you’re interested, you can order one here. All proceeds from t-shirt sales will go to the printing of books like More Than a Carpenter in Russian as Josh McDowell Ministry works with GA...
Facebook Life In A Google World
This April, Preston Swincher became the first Texas Christian University student ever to give the keynote address at the Honors Convocation. I recently read a transcript of his speech, “Facebook Life in a Google World (Or, ‘How the Internet crash...
Remembering Tiananmen Square
Twenty years ago today, the month-and-a-half-long protests led by Beijing university students against their government came to a halt, as military tanks and gunmen mowed down hundreds, possibly thousands, of those involved. Watching on TV from Americ...
Why I Love Working With College Students
“All too frequently the Church has fallen into lethargy in relation to its world-wide obligations. But God does not leave Himself without a witness. Whether it be a Nicolas Von Zinzendorf, a Samuel Mills, a C.T. Studd, a Robert Wilder, a John Mott,...
A Chance To Change The World
I’ve been listening to the new U2 album a lot since it came out. (It’s taking some getting used to. But that’s a topic for another day.)The following lyric from “I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight” keeps sticking in my head:“Ev...
Feed The Hungry While Playing Games
Want to waste time for a good cause?Increase your brain power and help feed the hungry at FreeRice.com!If you haven’t checked out the site recently, you might not know they’ve added new subjects. It’s not just vocabulary anymore; now you can qu...
