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A truly amazing photo on Astronomy Picture of the Day for September 21. (You can see previous days’ photos if you follow the link after today.)

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“1000 words of advice for design teachers” has great advice not only for design teachers, but for anyone teaching.

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One of the nicest perks of working for a magazine is getting to pick over the books sent for review. Although we didn’t review it, I quickly snatched up Barbara Brown Taylor’s Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith.
Barbara Brown Taylor is an editor-at-large at The Christian Century, where I first read her writing. These autobiographical [...]

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While at the FGC Gathering in July, I decided that I would address my recent spiritual malaise by attending some programmed meetings and liberal churches. Last Sunday I began my experiement by visiting Smithfield (RI) Meeting with DC. In contrast to other programmed meetings I’ve attended, Smithfield felt much more like the programming arose from [...]

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It’s certainly not that there hasn’t been anything happening, or that I haven’t been reading. But it’s been a busy summer–full, fun, difficult, challenging, all over the map.
I’ve kept intending to sit down and write catch-up posts. Perhaps the best way to get started is just to summarize:

One of my best and oldest friends, BH, [...]

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