Tag: books
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How Do the Arts Shape Our Souls?
Monday, August 10, 2026 Series: Arts That Shape Our Souls Followers of Jesus are sometimes guilty of separating everything into categories. We like things neat and tidy. We want a place for everything and everything in its place. I do this. How about you? When I catch myself doing it, I sometimes think about Peter.…
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Some Places Become Holy Simply Because We Lived There
We all feel disconnected at times. I never met my maternal or paternal grandparents. They had all died before I was born, so I grew up knowing very little about my family’s story. In the 1990s, my oldest sister, Sue, and I began researching our genealogy. The deeper we dug, the more I discovered that…
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We All Stand on the Shoulders of Someone Who Believed in Us
There are some writing prompts that are difficult because there are simply too many people to choose from. “We all stand on the shoulders of someone who believed in us” is one of those. After Hurricane Katrina devastated Mississippi in 2005, I helped lead a nonprofit organization that coordinated recovery efforts. It was meaningful work,…
The Curious Pilgrim 