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• Choice cuisine

  What does it mean to truly ?eat well??

• What dogs will eat

  A family?s food culture is cultivated in relationship with others, human and animal.

• The gift of Lisabet

  On loving and leaving the perfect coffeehouse.

• Denim sinner, coffeeshop Savior

  How true love meets guilt and shame one fateful, folk-filled evening.

• The pivotal apology

  Can we earn salvation through the act of repentance?

• Twice adopted

  On negotiating a scarred family past to discover true identity.

• Late night thoughts on what being a parent teaches about being God

  A parent of two following The One Rule learns a bit about the nature of the Parent of us all.

• Death and birth

  Reflections on becoming a parent.

• Garret

  Sometimes our neighbor really is the person right across the lane.

• Feeding the hungry

  Sometimes the most immediate needs go beyond food, clothing and shelter.

• An ordinary hero

  A review of Hotel Rwanda.

• Harry Potter is good for my soul

  A look at the provocative book series, just in time for the newest release.

• The metamorphosis

  Is the starry-eyed optimism of the engaged a mere illusion?

• Coming down now

  Learning to live together in a house built on a foundation of public promises.

• The greatest commandment(s)

  A service honoring the command to love and exploring what it means to love well.

• Redefining grace

  A review of The Woodsman.

• Template <i>(Store for Future Use)</i>

  A letter for an as-yet unformed person, a letter imagined, and a letter that may never be sent.

• Idle chatter is the Lord's playground

  On listening as worship and as ministry.

• Have you heard the news?

  On what happens when the kidnapping of Christian peace activists in Iraq meets the interpretation of a conservative radio pundit.

• The good fight

  An exploration of how we wrestle with the influences of our upbringing.

• A hidden self

  Reading the patterns of childhood in the adults we become.

• Anxiety in search of love

  A review of Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine.

• Let Christ invade your life

  How do we surrender to love as disciples of Christ in a broken world?

• Late night thoughts on addiction as symptom

  A reflection that reframes the assumption that addiction is an illness.

• Com-unity

  An overview of community principles practiced at The Hermitage Community.

• Poet of love, yearning and sadness

  The exquisitely melancholy love songs of Leonard Cohen.

• A good death

  Reflections of a Hospice chaplain a few days later.

• Clothed in death

  Some tragedies are too big to comprehend.

• Deep, dark hope

  A reflection on seeking promise after the death of a spouse.

• Addicted to love

  A review of Jolie Holland's album Springtime Can Kill You.