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The Four-Year-Old Christian
By
Carolyn Henderson
We were building sandcastles at the beach — the Norwegian Artist, Tired of Being Youngest, Small Person, and I — when an argument arose about the green and red plastic seahorse molds. Other than the colors, they were identical, but to Small Person — who is four years old — the colors mattered very much…
Christian Leadership and Ordinary People
By
Carolyn Henderson
As an ordinary person, I notice trending news and articles with words like “ordinary” and “people” in them, especially when the two words are put together. Lately I am seeing ordinary people being addressed more frequently by major Christian leadership types — from the pulpit, in their blogs, on the air. As in, “Ordinary people…
The Statement No Christian Should Make
By
Carolyn Henderson
As a Christian and a human being, I avoid the word “should,” because it’s generally used by Person A against Person B, to get Person B to do what Person A wants. So when I use it, I’m serious. And I’m serious about a sentence that Christians regularly bandy about as a means to prove that…
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