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mind.heart
I’ve been busy at work with my team at Raise Their Voice to create space for a two-day event in April called Raise Their Voice: The Trafficked + Exploited. It’s been a real example for me so far of stepping out in faith and taking a risk. In the lead up to the production of [...]
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Have you ever felt so deeply about something you don’t know what to say? You know something in your guts, and yet you can’t shape the knowing into a word. It’s often how I feel about the big questions – about life and what it means, the things of faith, and big words so easily [...]
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Merry Christmas to each of you. Thanks for stopping by my site throughout the year, leaving encouraging notes, and engaging life with me on the web. What a time to be alive. What a season to celebrate. Christmas always grounds me in meaning. As I think about the Incarnation, how the infinite became finite and [...]
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Annie Dillard asks a question about beauty in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek that nearly stops my beating heart. She frames the question with an Eskimo story told by Farley Mowat about a man, his young wife, and the girl’s mother at the top of the world. Jealous of her daughter’s love, the old woman strangles [...]
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Well, this is certainly a first for me, blogging from 32, 000 ft. It’s been one of those flights you dread. To be fair, things started well. I got my ticket and went through security like a greased pig slips through a farmer’s calloused hand. I wasn’t racially profiled which occasionally happens, nor was I [...]
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If you’ve followed my blog you may have taken note that I’m a fan of Anne Rice’s recent works (the Christ the Lord series was my introduction to her writing). But more than that, I’m a fan of her as a writer and a person. She is generous and giving as an author. As a [...]
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I’m excited about a new product our foundation (Raise Their Voice) is now selling to help pay for school fees for children in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The breakdown: buy a doll, send a child to school for a year! Learn a bit more about the handcrafted, original dolls made by women and children [...]
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