Here are all 128 of my posts, by date:
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- March 2010 (1)
- February 2010 (6)
- 27: A Case of the Human Condition: Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder - But What If There’s No Beholder? (0)
- 23: Book Openers: Georgetown Professor John Esposito on the Future of Islam (0)
- 19: The Writing Room: My Idea of a Good Time — A Week in the Mountains with a Bunch of Other Writers (0)
- 16: God’s Big Blog: What a Billion Muslims Really Think (0)
- 13: An Case of the Human Condition: A Child Is Born — And So Is a Grandpa (0)
- 06: The Writing Room: George Leonard and the Tao of Writing (0)
- January 2010 (11)
- 30: A Case of the Human Condition: The Center of the Universe? It’s a Little Beach in Michigan, of Course (0)
- 26: God’s Big Blog: I’m Convinced — Doubt Is Good (0)
- 26: A Case of the Human Condition: Another Threat to Lake Michigan — Asian Carp (0)
- 26: Book Openers: A Progressive Protestant Reclaims Christianity (0)
- 24: Want to Read More? You Can Subscribe to My Blog (0)
- 23: A Case of the Human Condition: Build a Wind Farm — Wreck Lake Michigan (4)
- 19: Book Openers: Haiti’s History — and the American Civil War (0)
- 18: The Writing Room: Carol Edgarian’s Letter to a Young Writer (0)
- 16: The Writing Room: Different From, Different Than - Which Is It? (0)
- 09: A Case of the Human Condition: Geographic Mobility in America — Watching My Kids Disappear (2)
- 02: A (Pillow) Case of the Human Condition: Time to Crack Open That Hope Chest and Live a Little (0)
- December 2009 (6)
- 29: A — Contagious — Case of the Human Condition: Me vs. the Mighty Microbe (0)
- 18: The Writing Room: Feng Shui for the Work Room — and the Bedroom (0)
- 12: Books Openers: Harvey Cox — You Don’t Have to Believe to Be a Christian (1)
- 10: GodsBigBlog: When It Comes to Religion, Americans Like to Mix and Match (0)
- 08: The Writing Room: Journalists in Jail Around the World — More and More Are Freelancers (0)
- 07: A Case of the Human Condition: Snow in California (0)
- November 2009 (5)
- 27: A Case of the Human Condition: My Imperfect Children (4)
- 18: A Case of the Human Condition: Birmingham High School Updated (0)
- 17: A Case of the Human Condition: Some Scenes from Birmingham, Michigan, Today (0)
- 16: A Case of the Human Condition: The More Things Change . . . The More They Stay the Same — Only Different (0)
- 02: A Case of the Human Condition: I’ve Got a Dirty Little Secret — I (Still) Can’t Say No to Toys (2)
- October 2009 (5)
- 30: A Case of the Human Condition: Help Us Choose Our Christmas Card Photo (3)
- 23: A Case of the Human Condition: You Can’t Go Home Again . . . Oh, But You Can (0)
- 16: A Case of the Human Condition: Hanging Out in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden (0)
- 09: A Case of the Human Condition: Walking the Walker in Minneapolis (0)
- 02: A Case of the Human Condition: Living the Good Life — In Minneapolis (0)
- September 2009 (9)
- 25: Book Openers: Want to Shock Your Atheist Family? Convert to Christianity (0)
- 20: A Case of the Human Condition: I’ve Got One — And So Does My Mom (0)
- 14: A Case of the Human Condition: Do Books Have Rights? This One Didn’t. I Threw It in the Trash. (0)
- 11: Book Openers: John Shelby Spong . . . Facing Death — and a Dead “God” (0)
- 07: GodsBigBlog: I’m Off to a Religion Newswriters Conference (0)
- 07: Book Openers: Huston Smith at 90 - Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim . . . Christian (2)
- 04: A Case of the Human Condition: Scrubbing the Floor with My Daughter Cinderella (0)
- 03: GodsBigBlog: Does a Teacher Have the Right to Wear a Muslim Headscarf? A Nun’s Habit? A Sikh’s Turban? Not in Every State (0)
- 03: GodsBigBlog: Hunger in America — It’s Real (1)
- August 2009 (11)
- 31: A Case of the Human Condition: Flowers Bursting From the Dirt — How Do They Do It? (0)
- 28: A Case of the Human Condition: A Generation of Preschoolers Trapped in Their Yards (2)
- 24: A Case of the Human Condition: In Your Face Orchids (0)
- 21: A Case of the Human Condition: Mad Men Exposes the ’60s Girdle — But How Will She Get It Off in Time? (0)
- 21: A Case of the Human Condition: Why He Never Called Me Back . . . (2)
- 17: A Case of the Human Condition: More Sunset Drama Over Lake Michigan (0)
- 15: A Case of the Human Condition: Sunset Over Lake Michigan (0)
- 14: The Writing Room: Ah, the Colon, That Most Majestic of Punctuation Marks . . . (0)
- 10: The Writing Room: If It’s Religious, Can It Be Art? (0)
- 07: God’s Big Blog: More Thoughts from/to/about Lauren Winner (0)
- 03: Writing Room: A Week With Lauren Winner — Of “Girl (Woman) Meets God” (4)
- July 2009 (13)
- 31: Book Openers: Jon Krakauer — He Hooks Me in Every Time (0)
- 27: A Case of the Human Condition: Why Can’t a Dad Be More Like a Mom? . . . Do We Really Want Them To Be? (0)
- 24: A Case of the Human Condition: A (Female) Painter Named Squeak (0)
- 20: The Scottville, Michigan, High School Football Team — 1929 (0)
- 20: Book Openers: I Still Haven’t Figured Out How to Pray — But I’m in Good Company (2)
- 17: A Case of the Human Condition: I’m a Woman with a — Sprawling — Past (2)
- 15: God’s Big Blog: American Muslims Seek to End U.S. Barriers to Their Charitable Giving (0)
- 13: Book Openers: Holy Super Bowl, Holy Bambi, Holy Michael Jackson (0)
- 10: A Case of the Human Condition: Men’s Secrets — No Women Allowed (5)
- 07: God’s Big Blog: Hindus Offended by Burger King Ad (0)
- 06: GodsBigBlog: OK, What’s God’s Big Blog?
- 04: A Case of the Human Condition: It’s the Fourth of July! (0)
- 03: A Case of the Human Condition: What Do I Do With Those Dying Snapdragons? (0)
- June 2009 (16)
- 30: GodsBigBlog: Will Obama Meet with Muslims This Weekend? (0)
- 30: GodsBigBlog: Hindus in America (0)
- 29: A Case of the Human Condition: I Did It — I Offed Those Frightful Snapdragons (0)
- 26: A Case of the Human Condition: I Want to Kill My Snapdragons (6)
- 23: Book Openers: Barack Obama — How He Got So Smart (2)
- 22: Writing Room: The Rhetorician in the White House — How I Learned to Love the Passive Voice (0)
- 19: Writing Room: Making Friends with the Passive Voice and Its Cousins (0)
- 15: GodsBigBlog: Why Meditate — When I Could Be Sweeping the Garage? (3)
- 14: GodsBigBlog: What Non-Believers Think of Obama (0)
- 12: A Case of the Human Condition: Early Late Youth Gives Way to Middle Middle Age (2)
- 08: A Case of the Human Condition: Swing, Lindy, Fast Dancing — My Kind of Crazy (2)
- 05: GodsBigBlog: Why Pray? — Some Thoughts from Karen Armstrong (1)
- 04: A Case of the Human Condition: What Happens when You’re Young, Beautiful — and American — in England (0)
- 02: A Case of the Human Condition: Long-Distance Mothering (0)
- 02: A Case of the Human Condition: Peter Has Appendicitis in Minnesota — How Do I Mother Him from California? (2)
- 01: The Writing Room: Splitting the Infinitive — How to Boldy Go There (0)
- May 2009 (16)
- 29: A Case of the Human Condition: Would My Husband Like to Add My Name to His? (6)
- 25: Writing Room: Rhetoric - What the Heck Is It? (0)
- 22: A Case of the Human Condition: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and the Indian I Wanted to Be (0)
- 21: God’s Big Blog: When Religious Liberty and Gay Rights Clash (0)
- 18: A Case of the Human Condition: When a Young Mother Dies (0)
- 15: A Case of the Human Condition: The Day She Popped the Question (0)
- 12: Brutality Begets Brutality, That’s Why Torture is Not OK — An American POW’s Story (1)
- 11: The Writing Room: Writer’s Block and the Toxic “Reader” (0)
- 10: The Writing Room: Writing About Your Mother? — Words of Caution from Lori Gottlieb (0)
- 09: Gods Big Blog: Why So Many Americans Are Leaving or Switching Churhes (0)
- 09: GodsBigBlog: A New Religion Website for the Many (0)
- 08: A Case of the Human Condition: Death is the Only Guarantee (0)
- 06: GodsBigBlog: Kids and Money — Saving It, Spending It, Sharing It (0)
- 04: GodsBigBlog: Dancer Savitri Hari — God in the Lowly Things (0)
- 01: GodsBigBlog: Religious Affiliation and the Torture Debate (0)
- 01: The Writing Room: To Niche or Not to Niche? (2)
- April 2009 (9)
- 28: GodsBigBlog: Americans Would Rather Switch Than Fight (0)
- 27: A Case of the Human Condition: Feminine, Feminist Pink (0)
- 20: A Case of the Human Condition: When Your Six-Year-Old Wants to Talk Money (6)
- 17: Writing Room: The Punch Line Always Goes Last (0)
- 13: A Case of the Human Condition: Beauty — What to Do About It (0)
- 10: GodsBigBlog: Native American Tori Isner — Want to Find Holy? Go Look at a Rock (2)
- 06: Book Openers: Simone Weil on Prayer — First, Pay Attention (0)
- 03: The Writing Room: Is Less More? Or Is More More? (2)
- 02: GodsBigBlog: Non-Belief and Atheism — Not the Same Thing (0)
- March 2009 (14)
- 30: The Writing Room: Two Must-Have Craft Journals for the Literary Writer (0)
- 27: Book Openers: Green for God (0)
- 23: A Case of the Human Condition: A Mother Who Prevailed at Auschwitz (0)
- 20: Writing Room: Ending Paragraphs and Sentences with a Bang (1)
- 16: A Case of the Human Condition: Choose Me, Please! (0)
- 13: Book Openers: The Emerging, Emergent Church — What’s Up Next for Christianity? (0)
- 11: GodsBigBlog: John Donne — A Seventeenth Century Priest and Poet Explodes into the Twenty-First Century (0)
- 09: A Case of the Human Condition: My Mother’s Magical Babushka (0)
- 06: Book Openers: An American Attorney Looks at Islamic Law (4)
- 05: A Case of the Human Condition: Banning Barbie in West Virginia (2)
- 02: GodsBigBlog: Muslim Women Are Doing Well in America (0)
- 02: A Case of the Human Condition: How Do You Play With a Barbie Doll? (2)
- 01: A Case of the Human Condition: James Dean’s Last Day — Video with CHP Officers on the Scene (1)
- 01: A Case of the Human Condition: Even Barbie Has to Turn Fifty Sometime (0)
- February 2009 (6)
- 27: GodsBigsBlog: Geoff Machin — We Go Looking for God, When We Could Be Having a Beer (0)
- 26: A Case of the Human Condition: The Day James Dean Died — The Eyewitnesses to Speak on February 28 (2)
- 26: Writing Room: Composer John Adams — There Are Lots of Ways to Be Creative, What’s Yours? (0)
- 25: A Case of the Human Condition: Life — How Much Is Enough? (1)
- 24: GodsBigBlog: Sister Barbara Hazzard — How to Pray Without Words (5)
- 23: A Case of the Human Condition: How Selective Service Made a Man of My Son — Without Even Trying (3)
