We often encounter college students who seem completely lacking in domestic skills, anxious to learn the simplest things about managing a home. They know they can’t eat in the college cafeteria the rest of their life.
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Archive | September, 2011
read more, write more
September 23, 2011
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Facebook updates are not the key to your future or your success. What you need is more long form reading in an age of Twitter.
Read more on dying well
September 21, 2011
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We have a lot yet to learn. But we are determined to learn it, and to extend grace with calmness and certitude in our final hours.
Read more (un)intentional community?
September 18, 2011
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People who talk about intentional community are often talking about starting over and starting outside churches where people are already responding corporately to unexpected blessings and unplanned grief.
Read more too numerous to mention
September 14, 2011
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All of us can say we’re sorry. With Michael, you never doubt it’s true. This sensitivity can cause problems for a boy. But in a man it is a rare treasure.
Read morethe way the world (should) end
September 11, 2011
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A common table is a great equalizer. It says we sit at the same level and eat the same food, sharing the same need and enjoying the same grace. And Christian hospitality requires us to do that with people less like ourselves.
Read more the end of summer
September 4, 2011
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As a kid I might have wished I had found the perfect shark eye (moon snail) along the beach, or had finished a conversation with a girl I met on the pier without sounding like an idiot. And nothing has changed but my list.
Read more things I try to avoid
September 2, 2011
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Name tags often spark very superficial conversations when what we need are real ones.
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sin is crouching at the door
War and greed are still crouching at the door. This is the motivating principle of democracy itself, since it teaches us no man can be trusted too little or for too long.
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