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• That Vacation-y Feeling (and Some Vacation-y Reading)

  

  I’m going to be a little less consistent about blogging in the next week or so, except when I have the urge to pop in and share a cartoon about one of my more... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning for Collagen Lips…

  

  “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning for collagen-enhanced lips The wretched refuse of your plastic-surgery-free shores Send these, the... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2013 FOOD & DRINK, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sustainable Traditions

  

  I’m really grateful to share another great review of my book over at Sustainable Traditions!They also made a pretty picture you can share if you pin things... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2013 FOOD & DRINK, SELF EXPRESSION

• “Absolution Can Be Disconcerting; Gimme Some Fire ‘n’ Brimstone!”

  I’m delighted to point you to another good review of my book, this time in The Christian Century, by Valerie Weaver-Zercher.Early in the review she talks about... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2013 FOOD & DRINK, SELF EXPRESSION

• Translating Christian Cliches: What People Say v. What They (Might) Mean

  

  Don’t read me wrong: I’m not saying that if you have said some of the things that appear in the right-hand column, you clearly meant what is made explicit in th... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2013 FOOD & DRINK, SELF EXPRESSION

• Books (And Authors) You Can’t Get Out Of Your Mind

  

  I have a long history of becoming pretty obsessed with a particular story or book. I am only slightly embarrassed to confess that I collapsed dramatically on th... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2013 FOOD & DRINK, SELF EXPRESSION

• Why I Cannot Go To The Toilet Without First Looking Into It (With Comic Strips)

  

  Which is why, 26 years later: {inspired by this disgusting post from Slate: “A Brief History of Toilet-Based Animal Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Day I Hid My Nametag From Ann Voskamp

  

  I have a new post up at Christianity Today on why there’s a difference between critics and haters.As I have written (and illustrated) earlier, sometimes, when... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2013 FOOD & DRINK, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Legal and Addictive Stimulant of Fear

  When I heard the verdict returned on the George Zimmerman trial, I thought immediately of the subtle reference to the case made by Marilynne Robinson at the... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Duckface VS. Classic Beauty

  

  I’m delighted to be introducing a new Friday series on this-here blog:DUCKFACE v. CLASSIC BEAUTYWe here are tired of these duckface selfies we see on Facebook... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• Where There Are No Good Bakeries (Or, “when the Crusty Bread is Too Pricey.”)

  

  As much as I believe that learning to cook and bake well can be more fun and more rewarding than you might have expected, I am a big fan of outsourcing some of... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 FOOD & DRINK, SELF EXPRESSION

• Seven Deadly Social Media Sins

  

  I teamed up with my dad to illustrate seven ways to go wrong on social media. Please note that almost any of these can have a right and proper place. It’s all... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2013 SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIAL MEDIA

• Metaphor on Monday: ‘Model Thyself After The Whale’ (or, Why ‘Individualism’...

  

  A few days ago, my son and I were looking at a book about space, and came across a picture of the Milky Way.Son: Wow. So many stars. Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• Friday Cat

  

  You might not believe me, but this is our FULL GROWN CAT. He’s tiny, and he weighs almost nothing, even though he eats like a DOG. Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2013 FOOD & DRINK, SELF EXPRESSION

• C.S. Lewis On Patriotism

  I’m not a flag-waving American. I don’t think that my country is the ‘greatest country in the world,’ and I cringe at phrases like “God Bless the USA,” simply... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2013 SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• Does Reading Make Us “More Human?” (Or, What DOES Reading Do?)

  If you have spent much time at all around this little blog of mine–or if you’ve read my book–it will not surprise you when I say that I can scarcely imagine lif... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• What If Jesus Is Saying It’s OK to Pay for Things That Are Against Your Religion...

  

  The first time I went to the hospital to learn more about maternal health services in Malawi, I’d been assigned to the family planning clinic, and was helping... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• The ‘Best’ Healthcare In The World (Or, “At Those Prices, It Should Be!”)

  

  A number of folks have pointed me to this article in the New York Times: “American Way of Birth, Costliest in the World.”via nytimes. Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• What Anxiety Feels Like (For Me, And, Maybe, For You. With Cartoons.)

  

  I often think that anxiety probably has some helpful prehistoric function, like sensing that a large, hungry carnivore is on the prowl and being the one to let... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Peace of Wild Things (with Photos of Animals Seen on a Recent Safari)

  

  For me, there is nothing quite like being outdoors, and, especially, seeing wild creatures, as an antidote to anxiety. I don’t think there is anything... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2013 SELF EXPRESSION