Similarly, with one eye looking upward (toward speculative theory) and one eye “turned inward” (something we call “navel gazing”) they have no eye looking at the reality or the people right in front of them.
Gulliver travels to Laputa:
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"There was a sense of something mysterious about [a childless couple] and their home—something about the abundance of a life that doesn’t look like everyone else’s—that lingers with me still."
Thankful for @karenswallowprior.bsky.social's life and witness.
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Thank you for reading and sharing!
Thank you, Bob.
A profoundly beautiful essay on childlessness by @karenswallowprior.bsky.social. Do read. "Children are a gift.... Sometimes, while we are looking for one gift, it can be harder to see another one resting, still wrapped, in the other direction."
Thank you!
I always, always appreciate KSP's voice on being a childless woman in the church. As we all know, it doesn't define her, which makes it even more valuable that she's willing to write about it.
That is a perceptive and meaningful way of putting it. Thank you.
Listened to this episode yesterday. It is absolutely gut-wrenching and disheartening. Praying for justice for Ms. Lyell and judgment on all the enablers.
I understand. ❤️🩹
In the new issue of @christianitytoday.com I reflect in my older age on being childless in “The Birds and the Bees, Babies and Me”:
www.christianitytoday.com/2026/03/kare...
I’m coming your way, St. Paul, MN! Would love to see you at Bethel Seminary this Monday.
This is an incredibly well-done and incredibly important documentary on one case of sexual abuse and its harrowing consequences. Please take an hour or so and listen. It is gut-wrenching. But it’s not isolated.
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So, you want to read more?
Me too, friend. Me too…
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Each one of us as human beings ails from an inner fracture—be it wide, or narrow, or ever-shifting—between our sense of duty and our sense of desire.
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The "liberal drift" was principally expressed in showing the tiniest degree of listening to survivors of clergy sexual abuse.
“Elwing had been a member of the Florida chapter of the Conservative Baptist Network (CBN), a group formed in 2020 to combat what it sees as ‘liberal drift’ in the SBC.”
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Republicans
2018: "Arrest all Pedophiles!"
2019: "Arrest all Pedophiles!"
2020: "Arrest all Pedophiles!"
2021: "Arrest all Pedophiles!"
2022: "Arrest all Pedophiles!"
2023: "Arrest all Pedophiles!"
2024: "Arrest all Pedophiles!"
2025: "Arrest all Pedophiles!"
2026: "Boys will be boys"
I was able to spend some time today at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.
I learned a lot about our past.
More importantly, I learned even more about our present.
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will."
@karenswallowprior.bsky.social on what *Jane Eyre* has to teach us about free will.
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“But, contrary to popular understanding, Utopia is not a program for social reform, not in any detailed way, anyway, but rather it is a call for self-examination.”
On Thomas More’s classic text:
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Yes! I just learned this phrase and will write about it soon.
Every human being does.
I literally just used these words in something I’m writing. Imagine believing and following scripture.
American Church, we all talk about the decline, and want to blame those outside.
The call is coming from inside the house.
This is a post made to me a few days ago on X. This isn’t personal, but it’s worse than personal: it expresses hatred of all women. This not an isolated one-off. Believe me. I’m posting this to let you know that men who hate women and want to control them are getting louder.
This is tomorrow night! Would love to see you there if you are in the area.
And I would appreciate any and all prayers for uninterrupted flights … 🙏❄️🌨️🙏
Oh great! I’m actually taking a two-week break with a post on Utopia then I don’t know what … but excited to return to the journey with you!
For sure! I’m just pointing out that what happened to the women and girls was not enough to start.
