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May 24, 2012

Community Writing Project: Summer Vacations

Charity Singleton

Though summer doesn't officially begin for nearly a month, in the Midwest where I live, school is ending, the days are getting longer, and the talk around the office is already revolving around...

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Feb 16, 2012

Community Writing Project: I Do

Ann Kroeker

Editor's Note: This article, featuring highlights from the Community Writing Project, is part of our one-month series exploring the joys and struggles of marriage, broaching the topic from...

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Dec 12, 2011

Community Writing Project: Advent Traditions

laura boggess

The morning we trim the tree, fat flakes dress the earth in threads of white. In the boughs of the naked maple—a flash of red—a cardinal in a nest of snow. I watch from the window, my feet...

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Nov 28, 2011

Advent Community Writing Project: Old and New Traditions

Charity Singleton

Yesterday was the first Sunday of Advent, and so we begin a season of waiting and expectation. For most of us, December can easily slip into one big blur of holiday parties and gift exchanges,...

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Oct 19, 2011

Community Writing Project: Before They're Forgotten

Ann Kroeker

On visits to my grandma’s house, I would curl up on the wooden bench under the carport and listen as my aunts, uncles and older cousins told stories—family stories about people like Uncle Al,...

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Oct 6, 2011

Community Writing Project: Word Portraits

Jennifer Dukes Lee

Aunt Gladys seemed more ready for Heaven than anyone I ever knew, but even when her body begged to go, she demanded more time on Earth. She told us that she was determined to outlive her four...

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Sep 16, 2011

Community Writing Project: Laugh Your Way to Therapy

Sam Van Eman

Who doesn't enjoy laughing? You may not feel like it right now in a meeting, or when you're plowing through a boring house project this weekend, but if it happened; if words and wit struck your...

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Apr 13, 2011

Community Writing Project: Crossing Cultures

Ann Kroeker

The Crossing Cultures Community Writing Project is hosted by one of our Welcome Editors, Dena Dyer. Visit her blog, Mother Inferior, to link up your stories. My parents tell me I was about...

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Apr 28, 2010

An Early Mother's Day

Ann Kroeker

Vignettes and poems have us pondering motherhood in anticipation of Mother's Day.

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Apr 22, 2010

Mother's Day Project

Ann Kroeker

HCB community writing project: compose a Mother's Day vignette or poem.

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Daily Reflection From Laity Lodge

Add to the Beauty

During the past several days, I have been reflecting on various implications of a passage in Ezekiel 41 in which God reveals his plans for beautiful decorations of the temple in Jerusalem. I began... Read More +