History, Real Life and Faith
I grew up in San Pedro, California, the port of Los Angeles, in a community of multi-lingual people, or polyglots. My own mother, born in Sicily, spoke Italian as her first language and occasionally explained things to her mother in her native tongue. My family babysitter was from Yugoslavia and routinely argued with her husband in various Slavic languages. I…
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The end of Harry Potter’s childhood and my daughter occurred at the same time. We celebrated by seeing the second half of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at the movie theater. Afterwards, we followed up with a party we called “Harry Potter and the End of Childhood.” While it marked the end of my daughter’s childhood, it also ended…
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The end of Harry Potter’s childhood and my daughter occurred at the same time. We celebrated by seeing the second half of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at the movie theater. Afterwards, we followed up with a party we called “Harry Potter and the End of Childhood.” While it marked the end of my daughter’s childhood, it also ended…
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One of the most important books I read in 2011 was David Platt‘s Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream. Radical has plenty of concepts to chew over, but the one that is sticking with me today has to do with our willingness to come to Jesus and die. I’ve long wondered what it was like to be…
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Vacation Bible School (VBS) is a big deal at our church. We’re not a particularly large Missouri Synod Lutheran Church, regularly worshipping about 325. But we go all out the week after Father’s Day each June and open our church to our community for fun, games, Bible teaching and great food. We’ve averaged 180 children so far this week and…
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Vacation Bible School (VBS) is a big deal at our church. We’re not a particularly large Missouri Synod Lutheran Church, regularly worshipping about 325. But we go all out the week after Father’s Day each June and open our church to our community for fun, games, Bible teaching and great food. We’ve averaged 180 children so far this week and…
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