I don’t know who invited Lent to the party so early, but here it comes – on Valentine’s Day, no less. I’ve found a short devotional book with which to enter the season: There You Are, God by the father-daughter team of Deacon Steve Lumbert and Karina Fabian. I know Karina from her work with CatholicContinue reading “Open Book: a father-daughter devotional”
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Not to be denied: abortion survivors speak out together
Abortion Survivors Break Their Silence by Melissa Ohden with Cindy Lambert (Focus on the Family, 2024) “There’s no such thing as abortion until birth.” I’ve heard that time and again from legislators who resist “born-alive” bills that would ensure care for children who survive attempted abortion. Melissa Ohden knows better. She survived an attempt toContinue reading “Not to be denied: abortion survivors speak out together”
Open Book: Bonhoeffer and Muggeridge for Advent
With thanks to my local library’s interlibrary loan program, I’ve just picked up a book that will keep me occupied during Advent and probably well into January: A Testament to Freedom: the Essential Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (ed. Kelly and Nelson, Harper San Francisco, 1995). Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor who was part ofContinue reading “Open Book: Bonhoeffer and Muggeridge for Advent”
Ellen Kolb 