Christian leaders speak out, and trek, on Day for Creation Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT
German Protestant who sought media independence, remembered Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT
Focus on human aspect of Holy Land conflict, says churches' leader Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT
Indian churches hail halting of permission for Vedanta's mining Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT
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Express train will carry Mother Teresa's message across India Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT
posted on August 30, 2010 in Columns, The Messy Table
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Every library needs a reference section, and, so too with my bookshelf. I have recently been considering a couple of useful advice books that have worked for me like reference books.
posted on August 23, 2010 in Columns, The Messy Table
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My bed is covered with things. More specifically, my bed is covered with clothes. Clothes that need to be sorted and packed and, well, disposed of.
posted on August 16, 2010 in Columns, The Messy Table
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A teacher friend of mine tells me that kids in the classroom aren’t responding to quiet voices.
In teachers’ college, student teachers are taught that to get the attention of a class, the key is to lower your voice, not raise it. But apparently, it isn’t working anymore. Kids today are just too used to screaming.
posted on August 9, 2010 in Columns, The Messy Table
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For us, there is only one story. It has all the trimmings: damsels in distress, villains half-imagined, and a hero. And it wasn’t clear which role I would get to play.
posted on August 3, 2010 in Columns, The Messy Table
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Perhaps most parents don’t take their four year olds to see modern dance. There certainly weren’t any other kids present. A teenaged boy lurking with his dad in the back, but nobody remotely pint-sized other than Beangirl.
posted on July 26, 2010 in Columns, The Messy Table
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This morning, we’re snails again. We’ve got the old station wagon packed to the gunwales, and we’re heading east again.
posted on July 19, 2010 in Columns, The Messy Table
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Growing up, I spent all my summers at camp. Yes, we’re talking a good old Presbyterian summer camp with moist cabins, the outdoor chapel overlooking the lake, canoes and mosquitoes galore, cabins and campfires and all that.
posted on July 12, 2010 in Columns, The Messy Table
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What books are important to you right now? What is on your bedside table? What’s overdue on your library card? What are you taking to the cottage?
posted on July 5, 2010 in Columns, The Messy Table
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For us, this is the last irrelevant summer vacation for a while. This fall, Beangirl will be starting school, as will Spouse, who will be wading into grad school and all that might bring. Come September, it will be a whole new chapter for us, so this year, we mean to soak up as much summer as we can get.
posted on June 28, 2010 in Columns, The Messy Table
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As of today, I’ve been a mother for four years. If you count the birth of the child as the birth of the mother. My own mum counts up the ages of all of her offspring and calculates it out that way. Impressive when she does it; I’m just getting started.
posted on June 19, 2010 in Columns, The Messy Table
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Ah, Father’s Day.
I love the idea of a day set aside to help us fulfil that tricky fifth commandment.
posted on June 14, 2010 in Columns, The Messy Table
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Kids ask hard questions. And we lucky parents get to answer them. How’s this for practical theology?
posted on June 7, 2010 in Columns, The Messy Table
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“Who are we to say what God finds proper?” So this week, I’m thinking about play. And playgrounds.
posted on May 31, 2010 in Columns, The Messy Table
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Recently, my daughter has been toasting God. And I don’t like it.
posted on May 26, 2010 in Columns, The Messy Table
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Check out the burning bush gig stick! Complete General Assembly reports. I love it. And I want one…
posted on May 24, 2010 in Columns, The Messy Table
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Today, it’s still a great story, and one that easily makes its way into every Bible-stories-for-kids-at-bedtime storybook.
posted on May 17, 2010 in Columns, The Messy Table
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Reading these stories, you know that to be somewhere cosy and bright and with family is to be connected to a greater goodness. And sometimes that’s hard because the house is small and being a little sister and a big sister at the same time isn’t easy.
posted on May 10, 2010 in Columns, The Messy Table
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Memory loss is everywhere these days. Culturally, we seem fascinated with it. It’s like a Rubik’s cube that we keep picking up, not really expecting to solve it but playing with it nonetheless because it’s so intriguing.
posted on May 3, 2010 in Columns, The Messy Table
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I want to consider parenting as a spiritual practice. Not because parenting is purer or more sacred or less worldly than other activities, but because it is so consistently messy.
