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[serialposts]“I’ve got good news and bad news,” I announced to the fifteen or so members of my church’s high school youth group. “The good news is I brought cookies. The bad news is I need help with my homework. I’ve been asked to write a blog post about this reason...
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In The Unlikely Missionary: From Pew-Warmer to Poverty-Fighter you hear the story about how I found passion and purpose for my faith as I studied the issue of extreme poverty. Then you follow my journey as I discover the impact of microenterprise through sharing the...
The perspectives in the church on Halloween are pretty extreme. Most Christians either love it, hate it, or create a Christian-alternative for it (which is sort-of celebrating it without saying you're celebrating it). I realize that merely talking about Halloween in...
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[serialposts] Is leaving the church the same thing as leaving God? Just days ago, I received this text message from a teenager struggling with finding Christian community. God is important to her. She's a young woman with faith much stronger than many adults. And yet...
[serialposts]“God, why is the sky blue?” I was eighteen when I finally asked...
[serialposts]When I started writing my novel back in 2009, I didn't set out to...
[serialposts] Reason #2 – Teens’ and twentysomethings’ experience of...
[serialposts]from Elora Ramirez' debut novel Come Alive, due out this Winter...
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