by Jennifer Mills-Knutsen (This piece tries to avoid giving away exact spoilers for Harry Potter, but there are hints. I’m guessing that six years after the book’s release, most adults have already read it or don’t care.) I was pacing in the living room. My son had been making his way through the Harry Potter … Continue reading
by Dena Douglas Hobbs Scripture Reading: Psalm 139:1-12 (NRSV) O LORD you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You discern my thoughts from far away. You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a … Continue reading
Corey Fields I recently heard Amy Bulter, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Washington, DC, say, “As a culture, we seem to walk around with a kind of PTSD.” She was in no way diminishing the serious, psychological diagnosis PTSD, but she was observing that our culture as an emotional system, especially since Sept. 11 … Continue reading
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