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What I’m Learning About That “Pick Your Battles” Advice
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Kristina Robb-Dover
At least once a week he runs several times around the full perimeter of our local neighborhood park. And he’s always carrying that damn Confederate flag. That and then the white beard, white T-shirt and slow, deliberate running gait are always easily recognizable. Today I saw him there again as I was driving the kids…
“S” is for “Surrender”: REST for Restless Souls, Via the 12 Steps
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Kristina Robb-Dover
“Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.” – Step 3 Back at this intersection between God and life after a leisurely week in Tulum, Mexico, I’ve been thinking about why it’s hard to surrender my life to God — or at least…
“The 12 Steps for Restless Souls”: A 5-Part Series
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Kristina Robb-Dover
We’re kicking off a new, five-part series, “The 12 Steps for Restless Souls,” with the following question: Is there such a thing as ‘recovery’ for the restless soul, and if so, what does it look like? The short answer, I believe, is “yes,” because “recovery” matters to God, or at least the Bible would say…
This Old House: A Poem
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Kristina Robb-Dover
The dramatic transformation that our old house continues to undergo, as of Week 6 of renovation, inspired the following reflections — about faith, surrender and resurrection, and about what it means to call a residence “home.” This Old House: A Poem Before we tore down your walls like…
5 Spiritual Lessons from Editing The Recovery-Minded Church
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Kristina Robb-Dover
The edits to The Recovery-Minded Church: Loving and Ministering to People with Additions (IVP) have been substantial and time-consuming, thanks to a talented editor (a shout-out to Helen Lee) performing her job well. The editing process has also kept me away from this intersection for far too long (and I hope to be back soon);…
A Christmas Homily
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Kristina Robb-Dover
While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them. —Luke 2:6,7 The sheer physicality of this picture strikes me this Christmas. The…
Meet Someone on Frontlines of Injustice in America
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Kristina Robb-Dover
Yesterday I promised you a treat: today is the first installment of an interview with Bruce Strom. Strom directs the organization Gospel Justice Initiative and is the author of the book Gospel Justice. I met Bruce after writing Grace Sticks and in particular, a chapter on worship (“Honk if you love Jesus. Text if you…
Baby Blues and Royal Grievances
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Kristina Robb-Dover
Has anyone else been annoyed by last week’s publicity tirade around the birth of Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge? I wonder if the joyous furor would have been so shrill if the new addition to the royal family were a girl? Or a baby born out of wedlock? Or an adopted son with a…
The Dog Days of Summer—A Lesson in the Limits of Redemption
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Kristina Robb-Dover
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Yesterday the dog trainer with the Atlanta Humane Society came to start a spate of in-home training sessions with our dog Roosevelt— this after Roosevelt had bitten a couple of neighbors, snapped at a child through our front fence and viciously attacked our other now geriatric dog Carter…
Official Release of “Mom in the Mirror” Today
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Kristina Robb-Dover
Today marks the official release of friend Emily Wierenga’s book, Mom in the Mirror. Wierenga, a former anorexic, and Dena Cabrera, an expert on eating disorders, teamed up to write a book that tackles issues of post-pregnancy body image for any woman who has struggled in this area. But the book is also a tender…
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