I’m No Superstar

I’m No Superstar is a blog for people like me who want to make a difference in the world but know they aren’t activists. Each post contains a social action idea that most of us could do, a book that’s worth reading, or a link to a website that offers other ideas. Oh, and it’s all introduced by a sometimes quirky story from my life.

The Fear of the Other

Ornithophobia, Sheldon explains in The Big Bang Theory, is the fear of birds. He’s terrified of a big blue bird outside his window, and when he tries to use a broom to make it fly away, it instead flies into his apartment. Sheldon gets Bernadette to rescue him by catching the bird.  “Flush it down

Where Were the Farmers?

I was reading the Parable of the Soils found in Luke 8 today. The soils, that’s what we focus on when we discuss this passage. The road. The rocky soil. The thorny ground. The good earth. And we talk about becoming that rich loamy soil that produces good fruit. But the last few times I’ve

Girls on the Run—Toward Changing the World

“Corban requested your companionship,” said the text. No, it wasn’t an inappropriate proposition. It was an 8-year-old boy inviting me to get up at an ungodly hour of a Saturday morning (a Saturday when I would have to go into work later) to sit on a sidewalk (probably in the rain as things look now)

Of Mom, Memories, and Modeling Christ

This week I’m speaking twice on “Remembering Our Mothers: Living a Legacy.” In preparation, I began to go through my father’s slides and photos that we had had digitally scanned shortly before my mother died eight years ago. And I found some treasures. This joyous, glamorous photo of my mom before children, maybe even before

 

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