So how do we live in harmony with one another, and the orchestra of Creation, over whom God is the Conductor? It is true that we cannot continue business as usual. I remember a teacher in high school citing a statistic that if everyone lived as decadently as we do in the West, we wouldContinueContinue reading “Climate Change Part 2: The Analogy of the Diet”
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Climate Change Part 1: The Analogy of the Dysfunctional Choir
During the 1970s, my dad worked as a dispatcher for a trucking company in Michigan. In 1981, the company suspended operation of the Michigan terminal, but offered him a job in Wisconsin. So the family, which at that time only meant Mom, Dad and my oldest brother who was a baby, moved to Wisconsin. LifeContinueContinue reading “Climate Change Part 1: The Analogy of the Dysfunctional Choir”
My Case for Christ and our Superiority to Animals
One day the summer before last, an animal died in our yard, and my mom noticed some birds, which we later learned were turkey buzzards, had gathered around it for a feast. That afternoon, my parents, and even a family friend who dropped by, watched in morbid fascination as the birds feasted, even marveling atContinueContinue reading “My Case for Christ and our Superiority to Animals”
On Human Dignity and the Sanctity of Life: Part 2
As promised, here is the research paper I wrote last semester on the sanctity of life. It addresses mostly the abortion debate, but also physician-assisted suicide. If you are just joining us, I encourage you to scroll down to yesterday’s post for clarification and context. I also want to add one more clarification. My lastContinueContinue reading “On Human Dignity and the Sanctity of Life: Part 2”
On Human Dignity and the Sanctity of Life: Part 1
Well readers, I am a woman of my word, and given that the Fall semester of seminary school officially starts this week, and the abortion debate will probably dominate the news cycle until midterms, it is almost time that I share the research paper I wrote last semester on the biblical perspective on human dignity.ContinueContinue reading “On Human Dignity and the Sanctity of Life: Part 1”
What I Would Tell the Teenage Girl Who Wrote a Letter to President Bush
This past year, Mom deep-cleaned the basement, put in new flooring (by herself), donated/threw away things we no longer used and reorganized special items we wanted to keep. One day several months ago, shortly after this massive undertaking was complete, I had just finished walking on the treadmill one Tuesday evening when I grabbed myContinueContinue reading “What I Would Tell the Teenage Girl Who Wrote a Letter to President Bush”
Chapter 8: A Complicated Question
It is 2010, and I am standing in front of a classroom of thirty college students at Carroll University where I am a student myself. But I am not in this class. My classes are in the communication and english departments. This is a class for business majors studying diversity in the workplace, and IContinueContinue reading “Chapter 8: A Complicated Question”
Chapter 7: The Rivers of Faith and Life Come Together
The first seeds of awareness that seminary school might be in my future were planted every time we went to Elmbrook Church, where I would be on the edge of my seat, fully engaged with the academic nature of each sermon that brought the Bible to life, and then fertilized one Sunday in 2013 whenContinueContinue reading “Chapter 7: The Rivers of Faith and Life Come Together”
Chapter 6: Coming to Faith
It is one of many Sunday mornings growing up. Most of the family is in the car, which is idling in the driveway. I say most because we were always waiting on one pokey sibling. BEEEP! Dad lays on the car horn. “Where is he?” Dad would mutter angrily. ContinueContinue reading “Chapter 6: Coming to Faith”
Chapter 2: Rough Waters From the Start
“I know you’re an adult now and I shouldn’t drag you to things anymore, but I’m dragging you to this. I think it’s important,” Mom said. It was October 2011 and I was complaining because I had just found out that Mom, Grandma and I would be going to a grand opening eventContinueContinue reading “Chapter 2: Rough Waters From the Start”
Gilbert and Me 