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You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby - Maybe? (opens the original)
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In 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt, the First Lady of the United States, wrote: “There was a time when a woman married and her property became her husband’s, her earnings were her husband’s and the control of the children was never in her hands. The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything that undermines it.”In my personal journey, the role of women became a touch point within what seemed to be mixed messages within Salvation Army circ
Compared to his Brother (opens the original)
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A young friend recently asked me: “How do you know if someone is a Christian?” It sounds so simple when we sing the children’s chorus, “I am a C. I am a C-H. I am a C-H-R-I-S-T-I-A-N. And I have Christ in my heart and I will live eternally.” Sing that at age eight, and we’re set for life, right? Yet many theologians suggest the “once saved, always saved” description of this ditty is too simplistic. Indeed, Salvation Army doctrine states that “continuance in a state of salvation depends upon cont
Twenty-Five Years (opens the original)
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The clippings are tucked haphazardly between the covers of the blue folder still buried in my “to be filed” pile. They tell of twisted metal and bowed heads, grieving families and flag-draped coffins. How dare I label their contents? Disaster? Ground Zero? World Trade Center? 9-11? How do you alphabetize “9-11?” How do I file away the hope that walked hand in hand with horror through the city that never sleeps, the Pentagon, a sleepy hillside in central Pennsylvania?At first, it was unfathomable
Who’s Right? (opens the original)
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Here we go again. Facebook has sucked me into its whirling vortex, and, as too often happens, I fall for it. Last month, it was the “to-be-continued” accounts, with a genuinely stupid conclusion or an inaccessible ending. Now it’s the posts that wonder: “who’s wrong” – or “who’s right.” The writer sets up a scenario (of course from their perspective), and then asks the pressing question – I’m right, aren’t I?Yes, I’ve been reading some of these, convincing myself that I’m doing research for my w
The Midwife’s Apprentice (opens the original)
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The slim volume sat on my nightstand since early June, unread. My sister Janet, a retired educator, brought a favorite book to me, thinking I could read it this summer with our eleven-year-old granddaughter, the delightful and determined Elizabeth Holiday. We never quite got around to it, as the summer has quietly slipped by, but I opened its pages last night and finished reading this morning.Karen Cushman’s “The Midwife’s Apprentice” is not a lovely story, nor is it a happily-ever-after fairy t
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