Scary Mommy: When Quinoa Comes Between You and Humanity
And there it is. A subtle showing of our sometimes unknown biases, lurking beneath the surface.
A light cast on the small stretch of space between "I'm an educated, sophisticated consumer who chooses healthy foods for our family" to "I look down on those who aren't." Read more about what we miss when we casually drop the phrase "those people" into conversation
Customer Writes Racist Remarks on Restaurant Bill; Waitress Gets Surprise Tip
ABC news is reporting that a story about how good people refused to let a waitress at Red Lobster lose her tip because of her race.
Little Marios: How Having Siblings Should Impact Your Faith
When you can see other people--even those annoying people who have appointed themselves to be God's Republican or Democratic Social Media vigilantes--as brothers and sisters, as chips off the same block, as different versions of ourselves, love is the only response that makes sense.
Love Is Patient, Love Is Kind Is Not a Wedding Sermon
Paul wasn't talking about marriage at all. He wasn't elevating the love between a bride and groom to some higher standard, where he called us to have this special kind of "patient" and "humble" love with...you know, that one special someone, who we're going to wake up next to every day.
His intention was to define love as it should manifest in life and culture, to friends, family, society, humankind...and probably, he especially meant to impact how people of faith thought about and treated each other (since that is who he was talking to).
When Christians Turn Facebook Into Hatebook
Republicans and Democrats, Liberals and Conservatives, hosting daily gang wars on Facebook. Hate. Instead of helping people see what's "right," you helped them hate truth instead.