life
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Jesus is human, too.
2020 – what an appropriate year to talk about Jesus’ humanity, as we ourselves navigate how to be human in the midst of so much darkness. This year has been difficult for every single one of us in some way,… Continue reading
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Hope | Guest Post by Rev. Dr. Stephen Hay
“Hope During the Pandemic” Colton was eight years old when he died last summer. I had hoped that he would make it through his leukemia and live into old age. I had hoped that he would become a pastor; he… Continue reading
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dementia.
My grandfather – my Poppop – has been living with primary progressive aphasia for almost five years now. PPA is a rare form of dementia – a neurodegenerative disease – that affects ones ability both to produce and comprehend language &… Continue reading
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“This will be messy.”
Two weeks ago, my pastoral care professor named aloud what we were all thinking as we geared up to begin our first week of online classes: “This will be messy,” she said, and messy, this has been. The pastoral care… Continue reading
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unity amid the coronavirus.
The other evening while sitting at dinner, it seemed the topic of conversation at each of the tables surrounding my friend and I was none other than that of the coronavirus. Yesterday at the gas station, I heard one man… Continue reading
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“I’m doing the dang thing” || Guest Post by Hannah Smith
May 2019 was one of the most exciting months so far in my almost 23 years of living. I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with two majors and a minor, and just a week later,… Continue reading
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self-care.
At the end of May 2019 through most of June 2019, I had a heart monitor on the left side of my upper chest. The monitor was quite noticeable given that there are minimal shirts out there that would cover… Continue reading
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semester one.
It feels weird to be sitting down at my computer to write something other than a church history paper or a scripture journal entry for Old Testament. The past four months have been consumed with nothing other than this new… Continue reading
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Liberty to Duke.
The best way I can think to describe how my experience at Liberty University fits into my life now, four years after being a student there, is with the image of an onion – the experience, or rather, the repercussions… Continue reading
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here I am :)
I keep finding myself in moments and in seasons of life that I feel I am unable to adequately describe with words. The fact that I am wrapping up my first week of seminary on the campus of Duke University is… Continue reading
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