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Bloggers, now, you have another way to participate in this site. Simply ask your question, or offer your own advice, at your blog, and submit your piece to our bi-weekly carnival. Giving myself plenty of time to get this started, the first is scheduled to come out Mar 05, 2007. The deadlines for the carnival is first of every month and the friday closest to the fifteenth of the month. The carnivals will come out the first and third monday. Submission Guidelines: Submit posts asking questions of various topics, can be relational, practical, cultural, or spiritual, q/a style posts, and posts on the kind ofRead More →

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Gentle Readers, On my husband’s blog, I came across a question from a liberal political blogger, who showed a documentary that interviewed young Blacks with, ah, identity issues. This blogger asked the conservative blogosphere if they feel the same sense of responsibility and concern about this. I’ve been debating with myself whether to respond for several days, but in the end, I couldn’t resist. To start, my dominant feeling in response to the video (I did watch it) is empathy, but I don’t think that’s quite the answer Binkyboy was looking for. If he means do I feel responsible for these problems, I’ll agree withRead More →

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If you’re single, a Christian, and not called to celibacy, you may be asking questions like, who should I marry? Is there such a thing as a soul mate? Does god have someone particular in mind, or is it up to me?

To all of you, my heart goes out. I’ve been in those shoes myself. Let me tell you, ladies, you can have soul mates without reincarnation, because the Lord knows exactly who He wishes you to marry and had that man’s faults and weaknesses in mind when He made you. Likewise, guys, just as the ladies have been made for their Adam, God also has an Eve out there for you.

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Dear Andrea, I had the following dream in June. I am a middle-aged empty nester with six grandchildren. I bought a new business in July and took on a significant volunteer leadership role this year in an organization. This dream came about a week before both of these events occurred. I was teaching a group of college kids at a high school camp. After our lesson, we toured the camp and were walking around looking at different buildings, etc., and I was explaining some of the purposes of them to the students. Across the way, here came three rams running right at us. I didRead More →