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TechnoratiPOST PUBLISHED INApril, 2011
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Adventures in Writing...and Homeschooling
April 26th, 201104:28 PM ETMy name is Elizabeth Wiens, and I've been married to my wonderful husband, Gary, for twenty-three years. Together we have four daughters, so I'm sure my husband is looking forward to the day when he can welcome a few young gentlemen into the family. Most of our married life, we have been involved in full-time ministry, raising our own support as ho... -
What Does “Being Saved” Really Mean?
April 24th, 201112:42 PM ETThe Christian Gospel is the most powerful "meme" ever crafted on this planet. One-third of the terrestrial population claims it plays a central role in personal life. In its most reductionistic form, it takes on a phrase like "Jesus died for our sins." Of course, unpacking that phrase theologically could take a lifetime of work. The problem is, i... -
More Twists & Turns Than 4 Bavarian Pretzels: Review of The Unwanted, by Daniel Carter (OakTara)
April 24th, 201112:32 PM ETThe Unwanted is one of the most imaginative works of speculative fiction I've ever read. This book has more twists and turns in it than four Bavarian pretzels—and it's only the first book in the trilogy. Tibon, a fiendishly brilliant scientist, is on a quest to avenge the politically motivated and officially covered-up murder of his family over ... -
Seeking an Escape Hatch
April 24th, 201112:13 PM ETFor the last four and a half years I've helped care for my aging parents. The last two and a half of those years have been full time. This means my house sits empty, and I stay in a room in their house. My dad is 94 and suffers from dementia. My mom is 87. Most of the time she is independent and healthy but lately has been in and out the hospital f... -
Citizens of a Different Kingdom
April 23rd, 201112:34 PM ETWhen I returned from a State Department assignment overseas to work in a domestic position in Washington, D.C., I took a training course for the new job. The instructor suggested we consider our assignment in the United States like we did tours abroad: as a foreign assignment. After living in other countries, coming "home" resembled in some ways an... -
The Day Before Easter
April 23rd, 201110:40 AM ETI cannot let this blessed season escape without note. Easter seems to be played down so much compared to Christmas when we think of holidays, and yet of all the holidays, it is truly the most holy. I am quieted in my very spirit today as I think of Christ's time in Sheol before the resurrection. We so often focus on His death—that wretched time ... -
Love and Sacrifice
April 21st, 201111:35 AM ETIn my church tradition we are in the season of Lent, a time of love and sacrifice. I have always found it fitting that Valentine's Day lands around this time as well. My husband and I recently celebrated our twenty-ninth wedding anniversary. Marriage is largely that journey of love, the giving to another, the sacrifice of time and self. In the jou... -
Would Jesus Start a Food Bank?
April 18th, 201109:30 AM ETThere are a lot of things we do at churches that would be foreign to the church Jesus started: Youth Groups Choirs and Bell Choirs Men's Ministry Receptionists and Offices Robes and Liturgy Ordination Christian Counseling Christian Schools Cantatas Full-time Ministry People Now please hear me; all of these things can be good th... -
Why You Are the Way You Are #3—Middleborns, by Dr. Kevin Leman
April 15th, 201111:56 AM ETEver wonder why you're the peacekeeper among your friends and family? The secret is in your birth order. Today I'll focus on middleborns (for you firstborns and only children, look back at Why You Are the Way You Are #2; for you babies of the family, hang on, your blog is still coming. After all, you are the lastborn). If you're a middleborn, you'... -
FB, Twittering, Tweeting, and the Fat of Life
April 14th, 201102:05 PM ET"What is wrong with people?" the writer asked. "At a time so ripe with weighty questions and serious issues for consideration, how is it that so many people (he didn't use the word masses) are facebooking and twittering about such trivial matters—what they had for dinner, or their baby's latest tiny achievement!" The article went on in a similar... -
Giving Up Writing for Lent
April 14th, 201102:01 PM ETI've made it a practice to give up something for Lent. Most years I give up desserts because, for me, that is a supreme sacrifice. I always dread the approach of Ash Wednesday and eat as many sweets as I can before I give them up for that long, long road to Easter. One year, back in 1988, I decided to give up something equally difficult to sacrifi... -
A Native American Christian Speaks on “Why?”
April 11th, 201110:58 AM ETAs a Native American novelist and conference speaker who walks the Jesus Way, I have become increasingly more aware that when Christianity is mentioned, Native Americans do not readily come to mind. And because I create Native characters who frequently experience both loss and salvation when Tradition collides with contemporary worlds and faiths, I... -
Why You Are the Way You Are #2—Firstborns and Onlies, by Dr. Kevin Leman
April 07th, 201111:17 AM ETWant to find out what makes you tick and what ticks you off? Birth order holds the secrets. Today I'll focus on firstborn and only children. If you are one of them, you'll recognize yourself. If you aren't one of them, it's okay--you can still snoop. If you're a firstborn, you had an incredible advantage no other child in your family had—your pa... -
Yes, Virginia, There Are Still Honest People in the World
April 06th, 201111:11 PM ETAs a writer I love to read. So when I bought a Kindle, I was certain it was a gift from God (at the very least from one of His smarter angels). I have all sorts of books on the Kindle, even downloaded the entire collection of Charles Dickens for a dollar. I love that I can take a diverse selection of books, which fit in my purse, anywhere I want. I... -
Wilderness Wanderings
April 06th, 201110:48 PM ETWilderness is a popular theme in stories of great leaders. Abraham Lincoln came out of the wilderness to usher the United States through the Civil War. George Washington suffered in Valley Forge before eventually bringing American troops to success. Winston Churchill knew his wilderness years when he lost political power for a decade before emergin... -
I Once Had a Dream...What's Yours?
April 04th, 201101:14 PM ETI was eight years old when Elisabeth Elliot, the wife of Jim Elliot (martyred by the Aucas in 1956 while attempting to make contact with the tribe members), came to my parents' house for dinner (my father was the Academic Dean for Canadian Bible College/Canadian Theological College in Regina, Saskatchewan). As all adults tend to do, she asked me, "...
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