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On Losing a Friend

It breaks my heart when a friend turns away. A best friend. He's black, you see. I seem to adapt how I speak to people according to my assessment of who they think they want to be. He seemed especially hiphop-ish, so I…
When You’re Drowning in the Shallow End of Friendship

By Sharon at She Worships Ever since Ike and I moved to the Chicago area 3 years ago, things have mostly been great. We love school, we’ve had a blast exploring the city and going on adventures, and then the crow…
How Not to Help Someone After a Breakup

By Sharon at She Worships Every now and then, God nudges my heart with a topic that I think someone out there needs to hear. Most recently, the topic is one I know quite a lot about: breakups. Although it’s been…
What Is Love? Part Seven: Final Thoughts

Well it's been a long week of discussing the concept of love. I'll be honest; the only reason I started doing this in the first place was to help me understand what love really is. If you know me at all, you know I've…
Agnes' Story: Caring for Others

“Mark I have terminal cancer, please call me." That was the short message that I got over the phone from "Agnes." She is an older woman, in retirement and she lives in an apartment complex for those who need assi…
When You’re Outside the Club, Looking In

By Sharon at She Worships I never thought I would say this, but I actually miss being pregnant. There are a lot of things that I don’t miss–like the inability to sleep on my stomach and back, the unladylike…
Wanna Know What Women Want? Here’s One Answer.

By Sharon at She Worships Shortly after I found out I was pregnant, I joined a website designed to educate and accompany me through the pregnancy process. Like many of these sites, it sends me a weekly e-mail about my b…
How to Respond When a Christian Friend Stumbles

By Sharon at SheWorships This week I came across a story about a large evangelical church that exercised church discipline on one of its members in a seemingly harsh way. For those of you who haven’t read the stor…
The Perfect Space

By Dean Lusk My buddy Kelly casually dropped the name of a group last summer that he thought I might look to add to the iPod rotation. The band he mentioned was the Avett Brothers and the scouting report was superb. To…
Girls Night Out: Time Spent Being Real

By Bonnie at Faith Barista “The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.” ~ C.S. Lewis Yesterday, I did something different. Three girlfriends and I went out for dinne…