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Week One With Hurricane Sandy @NJShorePatch
“It’s been a week since Hurricane Sandy hit and like many others, we still have no electricity at my house off Mantoloking Road. Our neighborhood is humming with the sound of generators, but I’ve been...
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Common Grace Flowing at the Jersey Shore @UrbanFaith
“Hurricane Sandy did a whole lot of mischief here at the Jersey Shore. So much so that Halloween has been canceled* by order of the governor. I doubt anyone cares. We’re too busy looking for power,...
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A New Kind of Heroine @TheHighCalling
The protaganist of Disney/Pixar’s newest feature film “Brave“ is an unlikely heroine. The Scottish princess confronts and overcomes what she views as a constricted future for her life, but she also...
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Managing the ‘Disaster After the Disaster’ @NJShorePatch
“You’ve probably been asked by out-of-state friends where to send Hurricane Sandy donations and what kind? It’s a daunting task to advise people when you’re in the midst of a crisis, but as the...
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When Storms Come @Faith&Leadership
Like a thrill ride gone terribly wrong, Hurricane Sandy barreled through my beloved Jersey Shore last month. Except during college and a six-year sojourn in California, this area has always been home,...
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Down With Thanksgiving Shopping! Maybe. @NJShorePatch
I’ve been known to be a party pooper, a real Debbie downer (sorry Debbie) when it comes to certain kinds of indulgences. Keep this in mind if you keep reading. Black Friday. Fine. After a day of...
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Recapturing Innocence With Ang Lee @TheHighCalling
The sound of a baby’s laughter. A six year old’s wide-eyed wonder on Christmas morning. The moment you first believed. Who doesn’t want to relive innocence like that? For Academy Award-winning director...
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Which Is the Better Story @Image Journal’s Good Letters blog
“There’s a scene early in Ang Lee’s majestic Life of Pi film in which the main character watches everything he loves die. Pi is floating in a vast, murky sea as the ship carrying his family and their...
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Roller Girls Recover in Championship Style @NJShorePatch
There’s a saying in the entertainment business that “the show must go on,” but it’s not always true. For the Jersey Shore Roller Girls, the region’s all-female flat-track roller derby league, the...
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Emotional Intelligence for Everyday Leadership @TheHighCalling
Some leaders seem to instinctively understand people: what motivates them, what frustrates them, what inspires them. Other leaders don’t. They are blind to the emotional landscape around them. These...
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Reality Checking My Dreams
When my son Gabe was growing up and I’d dream about his wedding day, we’d be at his reception, dancing to the Alison Kraus / Cox Family rendition of “Loves Me Like a Rock.” In my mind, we would be...
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Week One With Hurricane Sandy @NJShorePatch
“It’s been a week since Hurricane Sandy hit and like many others, we still have no electricity at my house off Mantoloking Road. Our neighborhood is humming with the sound of generators, but I’ve been...
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Defending the Dysfunctional Tribe
To paraphrase Leo Tolstoy, healthy families are all alike, but dysfunctional families are all dysfunctional in their own ways. I disagree with this premise though. I think dysfunctional families are...
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One Guy’s Opinion: Public School, Private School, Home School
My son (25 years old) called today. He was REALLY bored, but had nothing to say, so I interviewed him about his educational experiences growing up. Here’s what he said: Christian school (10th-11th) was...
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Reality Checking My Dreams
When my son Gabe was growing up and I’d dream about his wedding day, we’d be at his reception, dancing to the Alison Kraus / Cox Family rendition of “Loves Me Like a Rock.” In my mind, we would be...
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Which Is the Better Story @Image Journal’s Good Letters blog
“There’s a scene early in Ang Lee’s majestic Life of Pi film in which the main character watches everything he loves die. Pi is floating in a vast, murky sea as the ship carrying his family and their...
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My Child’s Death Doesn’t Belong in Your Activism
Gabe would have supported the More Than a Single Story project. I know this because he was in favor of Soulforce visiting Wheaton College when he was a student there and because he struggled hard...
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Sometimes Black Sons Have White Mothers
Sometimes black sons have white mothers. I want to tweet those words every time a racially charged situation overtakes my Twitter feed and the many black writers I follow begin passionately advocating...
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2014: My Year of Mental Health Journalism
“How do you think our lives would be different if Gabe hadn’t died?” Before I’d even finished asking my husband the question, I knew there was no need for an answer. It was like asking, “How would...
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Telling My Conversion Story
Reflecting upon the newly published summary of my conversion in Christianity Today, I see a few things that I’d like to expand upon. First, there are lenses apart from a religious one through which to...
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