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The Whole Hokey Pokey – Allison Gaskins
The dancer’s body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. —Isadora Duncan Most people make New Year’s resolutions. We make goals and then work out how to achieve them, one way or another. I do this, too. I set …
Advent: What to do? – Rev. Dean Miller
Advent is the start to the new year for the Anglican church calendar. It’s the season where we prepare for Jesus’ return and celebrate his glorious incoming into our world. Typically we set aside the five Sundays before Christmas to …
Adoption – Erin O’Keefe
What does it look like to “build” a family? Does God want to be a full Partner in this worthy endeavor? It’s obvious to me that He does and is the driving force in bringing forth a particular family. Trusting …
Peyton and Martin Cut the Meat – Rev. Dean Miller
My kids and I like to troll through old, hilarious commercials on YouTube. From the subtlety of Aaron Rodgers’ in the ‘Discount Double Check’ series, to the recent brilliance of the Kohler repairman installing and testing a new shower, to …
Singing Songs that the Whole World Can Hear – Dr. Steve Garber
On Vocation and the Common Good First posted at The Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation and Culture May 2012. (Dr. Steven Garber delivered this commencement address at Geneva College on Saturday, May 5, 2012) President Smith, respected trustees, gifted faculty and staff, …
Constraint and Consent, Career and Motherhood – Kate Harris
First published by Q Ideas for the Common Good In her recent article in The Atlantic, “Women Still Can’t Have it All,” Anne-Marie Slaughter has prompted an all-too predictable firestorm of cultural commentary about the rights and plights of modern women …
Dishes and Gene Kelly – Rev. Dean Miller
Dishes and Gene Kelly First published by The Washington Institute July 2012. Almost every morning when I empty the dishwasher, I think of Gene Kelly. Allow me to explain. Like many of us, to get through graduate school I took on …
Do Sinners Flock to You? Lessons from Dostoevsky – Rev. Sam Ferguson
Readers rightly note that Fyodor Dostoevsky’s genius lay in his psychological insight, whereby his characters embody that strange comingling of virtue and vice, common to every human heart. However, as I’ve been reading his novel, The Brothers Karamazov, I’ve found …
“Help, I Don’t Like My Child!” – Susan Yates
Ok, right now I just don’t like my child. It’s been a really bad stretch and nothing seems to help. I feel like I am the worst mother in the world. A true confession from a very normal mother. …
