Today, I'm linking up with Lisa-Jo Baker‘s Five Minute Friday. The rules: Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.
This week's prompt: Visit.
It was bitterly cold in Chicago yesterday. According to...
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In the last two weeks, an important conversation has been happening in the virtual world about women in the church.
The conversation erupted when popular evangelical blogger Rachel Held Evans tweeted:
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As a youth worker, I'm constantly amazed at the mysteriousness of adolescence. One minute, I'm baffled by the immaturity of my teens. The next, I'm blown away by their insight. Somehow, in the adolescent world, immaturity and insight regularly...
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My husband and I have been blessed to be part of a long-standing small group. Together with this group, we've celebrated milestones and walked with each other through some of life's darkest moments. We've also reflected on our faith stories and in...
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Over the last two weeks, there has been extensive news coverage about the impact of the government shutdown on various services.
We've seen headlines about WWII veterans trying to visit a closed WWII monument in Washington DC; About frustrated...
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The other day, this tweet from People caught my attention:
Having grown to love Rwanda...
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For the past month, my suburban community has been slowly making improvements to our sewer system.
Truthfully, I don't exactly understand the details.

What I do understand is that when the Insituform truck arrives outside my house, it's going...
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Occasionally I see something on Twitter that elicits an immediate emotional reaction in me.
Such was the case last week when I saw this promoted tweet from Walden University:
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Just off one of the busiest streets in my community there lies an apartment building, Parkside Apartments.
In an upper-middle class community filled with well-kept homes, Parkside stands out: It looks dilapidated. It's most prevalent window...
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“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.” - Brene Brown
Since choosing brave as my one word for 2013, I've been on the lookout for demonstrations of courage.

Recently, I saw several stunning displays of courage when I...
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