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Is God Playing Chess?

When someone says, “Everything happens for a reason,” I bristle. It’s involuntary and visceral. I used to say it myself. We employ this phrase as though it is a comfort. We trot it out because we don’t know what else to say, which makes us uncomfortable. It fills the painful, quiet space that one experiencesContinue reading “Is God Playing Chess?”

My Faith Journey

One day at a strip mall, two older girls, late teens or early 20’s, approached my friend and I, asking if we had accepted Christ. I was probably in fifth or sixth grade. One of them explained, “You just have to ask Jesus into your heart.” I said, “Oh, yeah. I ask him in allContinue reading “My Faith Journey”