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Faith Permeating Life
Straight talk about marriage, faith, money, and sex. Life isn't always easy, but it doesn't have to be overly complicated either. Pick up a few tips...
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Obedience or Service: How Do You Show Christ to Others?
Faith Permeating Life ― A while back, our church gave out free copies of the book Rediscover Catholicism by Matthew Kelly. I didn't get very far through it because it was poorly edited and Kelly kept interspersing good thoughts with vast false generalizations about people.... (more)
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Defining "Sex" and Why It's Not the Same Thing as Dating
Faith Permeating Life ― Today, let's return to our discussion about how those who want to condemn same-sex behavior as sinful need to define both "sex" (as in the fuzzy boxes we call male and female) and "sexual behavior." Here's a link to last Wednesday's post about the... (more)
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What Marriage Means to Me: Revolution
Faith Permeating Life ― I know I say this every time, but I am super-excited to share this week's contribution to the What Marriage Means to Me series. I have the privilege of knowing Revolution "IRL," and he is truly an awesome person whom I wish everyone had the chance to... (more)
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Answering Some Questions about Sexuality
Faith Permeating Life ― My next post, about defining sexual behavior, is ready to go, but since Queen of Carrots took the time to ask a bunch of follow-up questions to my last post, I wanted to take an opportunity to answer those questions first.I don't pretend to have the... (more)
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Defining the "Sex" in Same-Sex Anything
Faith Permeating Life ― Recently I watched a fantastic presentation that the Gay Christian Network did for Pepperdine University. The first night, the GCN executive director (Justin Lee) and another guy from GCN named Ron talked about the issues on which they agree --... (more)
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What Marriage Means to Me: Sarah
Faith Permeating Life ― We had a brief hiatus for the What Marriage Means to Me series (I'm always looking for new contributors!), but I'm glad to tell you we're adding some great new perspectives to the series, starting with today's post from Sarah of Shades of Shayes.... (more)
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Everyone Feels Selfish: Judgment in Parenthood
Faith Permeating Life ― Since writing On Adoption and Selfishness over a year ago, I've had conversations about children with many different people, mostly women. And I discovered something fascinating.So many women consider their specific decisions to be selfish.In my... (more)
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Creating Space for Voices: Reflections on My Life Purpose
Faith Permeating Life ― I wrote previously that there were certain things that drove me -- confidence, challenge, and connection -- but I realized that these are my motivators, but not my goal.What is my goal? What is the one thing I've worked for in the vast majority of... (more)
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A Request: Please Don't Read the Menu to Me
Faith Permeating Life ― I am making a Public Service Announcement because I know that a lot of you are nice, helpful people and therefore you may have done this very annoying thing I am about to describe.I am lactose intolerant. Because I am an adult and have learned how to... (more)
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3BoT Vol. 8: Three Books Every American Should Read
Faith Permeating Life ― The first Thursday of every month, I share three related book recommendations with you. You are invited to link up at the end of the post with three recommendations of your own! Click here for more info about Three Books on Thursday.One thing that... (more)
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Explaining My Beliefs to Those Who Have All the Answers
Faith Permeating Life ― Last Friday I wrote about the trouble with knowing everything, or why I find it so difficult to share my beliefs with people who ascribe to one single source of Truth that has authority above all others, to the extent that anything that doesn't fit... (more)
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Blog Comment Carnival: April 2012
Faith Permeating Life ― This month brought some amazingly awesome discussions to the blog comments! I had way too many selected for this month's comment carnival and had to go back and weed them down. Definitely check out the posts linked here for even more perspectives on... (more)
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Posted 27 days ago
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The Trouble with Knowing Everything
Faith Permeating Life ― I've had several conversations lately that have caused me to think about truth. Or more specifically, how adhering to a single source of Ultimate Truth can make it very difficult to come to any sort of understanding with someone who believes... (more)
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Spreading the Good News about Natural Family Planning
Faith Permeating Life ― Question: Why don't more people know about Natural Family Planning?And of those who know about it, why don't more people use it?I think there are a lot of possible answers to those questions. I'll touch on a few, but I think there's one large reason... (more)
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Posted on Apr 25th, 2012
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What Marriage Means to Me: Karen (Queen of Carrots)
Faith Permeating Life ― I can't even tell you how excited I am to share today's What Marriage Means to Me post! I don't know how I originally stumbled across The Duchy of Burgundy Carrots, but I've been a reader for quite a while and only recently found out that Karen (aka ... (more)
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Posted on Apr 23rd, 2012
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