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• The Reluctant Orthodox – Volume 4 “On Fasting”

  It’s when I taste the bitter coffee that I’m most aware I’m heading into a Fast Day, for I like my coffee rich, sweet, and creamy. I get lost in my... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Moralistic Therapeutic Deism

  

  by RobynnMy husband Lowell recently read a book entitled, Soul Searching, by Christian Smith and Melina Lundquist Denton from Duke University. Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• On Being an Impostor – Erasing the Scarlet Letter

  

  Readers if you didn’t see yesterday’s post, I urge you to read that first as it sets the stage for today’s post. Several of you sent emails, poignant reminders... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• On Being an Impostor – Branded with an ‘I’

  

  Yesterday I walked briskly on Boston’s uneven brick streets up to the State House, a gold-domed building that characterizes the Boston skyline. I was dressed... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• All I Have to Say….

  

  “And, masters, do not forget to specify, when time and place shall serve, that I am an ass.” Dogberry in Act 5, Scene 1 of Much Ado About NothingIn the play Muc... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Coming Out of the Tunnel

  

  As we come out of the subway tunnel, the early morning sun reflects off the Charles River. Beautiful, bright, full of hope.While in the tunnel all is dark aroun... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Reluctant Orthodox – Volume 3 “In Peace Let Us Depart”

  

  I wanted to sneak a look at my phone to find out the time. It had been at least a half hour since the priest had sung “In Peace Let us Depart” and the... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Common Prayer

  I’m struggling these days. I’m trying to process the attack last Sunday at All Saint’s Church in Peshawar. The news reports are still trickling in. It’s not... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• We Who Cast Stones

  Thoughts I’ve written as I’ve thought about evil, injustice, race, and we who cast stones:We don’t have to live long in this world to see injustice. It looks... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Unfair Grace – A Reblog

  

  Readers – i first wrote this piece as a guest post in Tamara Out Loud – Thoughts on Real Life and Real Faith. Today as I think about grace, I wanted to once... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Vulnerability.Community.God

  

  Today’s post comes by way of a friend from long ago. In fact, we first met when I was one of the missionary kids featured in this article, and she was living... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• When Discussions on Evil Don’t Help

  

  It’s late Sunday night and my head and my heart hurt. The death toll rises from a double suicide bomb attack on a vibrant church in Peshawar Pakistan. Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Reluctant Orthodox – Volume 2 “On Pews, Standing, & Overall Comfort”

  

  “I’m exhausted” I whisper to my husband “Do these people never sit?” We were attending Divine Liturgy, a service that had my husband’s face raised to the... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• What to Do When You Know You’re Right!

  

  What to do when you know you’re right by RobynnThere are times when I know I’m right. My passion lines up with solid morality. I’m thinking about justice and th... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Because Some Things Just Require Cake

  

  My eye spotted the card and I grabbed for my pen and small moleskin notebook, my ‘must haves’ for writing:A great many things can be solved with kindness –... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Acknowledging Imago Dei

  

  It’s the only way I can make it through these conversations, it’s the only way I can be okay with all I’ve seen and heard the last few weeks – Acknowledging... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Broken Made Stronger

  

  Today’s post is written by Brooke Sulahian. Brooke and I have never met, but every time I receive an email from her I stop and read it. Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Life Overseas: 2am in the Mumbai Airport (& Monday Muffins)

  

  Readers – will you join me at A Life Overseas today where I write about waiting? It’s 2am in the Mumbai Airport. I am in the domestic terminal and the airport i... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Reluctant Orthodox – Volume 1 “Ten Years Ago”

  

  It was 10 years ago when my husband entered an Eastern Orthodox church in Chicago and felt like he had come ‘home’. He was there with our oldest son on a colleg... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Blogs Are Relentless Critters….

  

  By RobynnEnglish teachers always say, “Write about what you know”.Well today I don’t know much. I think I’m all wrote out.Being a part of the Communicating... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION