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Why Slow Writing is the Only Kind I Want to Do
Fallow times are as necessary for writers as they are for fields and gardens. We...
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April 07, 2015
A Blog Series on Contraception Illustrates What’s Broken in the Blogosphere…and How We Might Begin to Fix It
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Rethinking Margaret Sanger, Contraception, & How We are All a Moral “Mixed Bag”
A mixed bag. We are all a mixed bag. This is Theology 101, a most...
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14 Blog Posts from 2014 That You Need to Read
These are the posts written in 2014 for which I had immediate recall because they...
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On Assisted Suicide and Chronic Pain, Sex and Prayer, DNA and Ice Buckets: Top 10 Posts of 2014
The 10 most-read blog posts of 2014—a list that provides a good snapshot of topics...
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Rethinking Prayer
I have struggled to pray for most of my life. Prayer has rarely made sense...
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Kids, Kidneys and Other Distractions
It's normal for me to be less productive in the final weeks of August, as...
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Why Talking Evangelical is Good for Your Blog Stats
A few months ago, I tweeted this: “Reason #437 I love being an Episcopalian: No...
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When a Viral Blog Post Doesn’t Change Much of Anything
Being a writer is primarily about writing—not about following some social media guru's five-step system...
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March 18, 2014
How the Internet is Killing the Book Review
Now that I own a Kindle, my ever-raging thirst for new reading material can be...
December 2013
December 31, 2013
My Most Popular Posts of 2013
Here's a round-up of my most popular blog posts of 2013. Perhaps there's something here...
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November 13, 2013
How to Promote Yourself (& Others) Without Driving People Crazy
In my online group of women writers, we've been discussing Kat Stoeffel's article on New York...
August 2013
August 18, 2013
On Disquiet Time and Chickens
Hello friends. I am popping in to say that I will be blogging minimally between...
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June 20, 2013
5 Truths About Blogging (IMHO)
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February 18, 2013
Should We All Give Up Reading the Comments Section…Forever?
Two of my friends, both of whom are writers with plenty of experience in the...
December 2012
December 18, 2012
On Blogging in Response to Tragedy
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