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This Is What It’s Like

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The past couple of days, I’ve had several conversations about ADHD. In the first one, I was trying to describe what it’s like to live with the condition, but I …

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I Hate That F**cking List

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So, Listly’s “Christian Blogs You Should Be Reading” 2014 edition is out and, happily, the top 25 reads like a who’s who of progressive/emergent Christian bloggers. Rachel Held Evans is …

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ADHD and Frustration

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I’ll admit this is really a bit of a rip-off. It was inspired by Hugh Hollowell’s piece on the shame that accompanies living with ADHD. In fact, the title is a …

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What You Don’t Know

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I saw this online recently and wanted to tell the poster, “What you don’t know is that the girl in front of you with the iPhone may have just lost her …

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I… Am… A… Nerd

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The past week, I feel like I’ve been on the edge of burning out on the blogging thing. A couple of days ago, I started 3 different pieces before I …

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True Stories

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I learned a long time ago that a story can be truthful without being true. I can’t remember where I came up with that, but I’m sure I read it …

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On the “Other”

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Other _ view or treat (a person or group of people) as intrinsically different from and alien to oneself. The action of othering is not unknown to progressive Christians. We see it every …

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Listen Up

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In the wake of the Zimmerman verdict, some of my conservative friends have posted stories about white people being attacked by black folks. They are almost always accompanied by the …

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Living on Borrowed Time

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This camper build isn’t going quite like I thought it would, but that seems to be the case with any project I take on. There have been setbacks, like the …

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How Firm a Foundation?

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I have a need for routine. Due to a nice dollop of Attention Deficit Disorder, if I don’t follow at least a few, nothing gets done. Unfortunately my ADD is …

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