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Laughter and Humility, Via Nature’s Call at the Blue Heron Preserve
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Kristina Robb-Dover
[Note to readers: if you have trouble with potty humor, you probably won’t want to read this.] So there we are at the “Blue Heron Nature Preserve” on a crisp fall afternoon, my kids and I taking in the best of the rustic outdoors that downtown Buckhead Atlanta has to offer. No blue herons in…
“R” Rated Bible…for Kids?
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Kristina Robb-Dover
Yesterday in making my rounds as a corporate chaplain, I ran into one man who volunteered that he and his family had recently seen the movie, “The Passion of the Christ,” for the very first time. “How old are your kids?,” I had inquired. All four were under the age of 13, with the exception of…
Potty Prayers: How I Am Learning to Pray in the Bathroom
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Kristina Robb-Dover
She almost hit me with the door as I was exiting the restroom of a company where I serve as a corporate chaplain. She’s the one in the front office who usually smiles when I come by. Not today. “How are you doing?,” I asked, as she shut the door to her stall. “Welcome to…
Brainstorming 2013 Together
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Kristina Robb-Dover
The brainstorming for 2013 has begun. Will you help, pretty please? I’m giving thought to possible blog series here at this intersection between God and life, and greatly appreciate your feedback. For your input: what from the below list most interests you?; what isn’t here that you’d like to see? what sort of series would…
More Thoughts on “Disappearing Mothers”
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Kristina Robb-Dover
My last post and popular blogger and author Rachel Held-Evans’ subsequent shout-out in her Sunday Superlatives (for “Best Conversation Starter in the Blogosphere”) have generated a throng of readers and a string of interesting comments, most of which seem to be largely in disagreement with Roiphe’s take on the matter (and my own points of…
Facebook’s “Disappearing Mothers”: The New Form of Women’s Self Effacement?
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Kristina Robb-Dover
Last week Tina Brown, editor of The Daily Beast and Newsweek, dished out her latest “must-reads” for NPR, this time on the subject of “The Modern Woman.” Financial Times writer Katie Roiphe’s article, “Disappearing mothers,” was on Brown’s short list, and after reading it, I concur that it’s a provocative piece worthy of a look!…
Happy Father’s Day!
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Kristina Robb-Dover
When I was fifteen, my dad took me to Russia and Europe to fulfill a promise he had made to each of us kids: we could each have one trip of our choice to anywhere in the world. At the time, Dad in his work organizing global prayer initiatives with World Vision International had been…
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