spirituality
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My friend’s brother, a self-styled doomsday prepper who proudly identifies as a “conspiracy theorist,” ran into an unexpected obstacle when COVID-19 arrived. In all his loud preparation for some vague apocalyptic future wrought by liberals, he had somehow forgotten the face masks. When my friend told me this, we both laughed — less at his anxiety as… Read more
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For Part 1: https://oddbygod.wordpress.com/2013/10/05/the-missionary-position-part-i When you are thrown into a chasm of despair, I believe in holding on to whatever you need to make it through to the other side. Sometimes rescuing ourselves out of the pit involves a lot of clawing at rock surfaces, blindly feeling for the slightest edge that will bear our… Read more
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The year between my sophomore and junior years of college, I worked as a student missionary. With my good friend Charity, we committed nine months to teaching English at a church-affiliated school in the city of Prague. As far as missionary positions go, ours was an easy job. Teach English during the week. Build relationships… Read more
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One summer, during seminary, a friend asked me to be a girls’ counselor for his church youth group at their annual trip to a Southern Baptist camp in the Sierras. I said yes because we were friends. I should have said no because we were friends. We should have both known better. I was in the midst… Read more
