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So you have been hearing us talk about a big announcement, well here it is. Beatingmurphy.wordpress.com is closing. We are no longer working on it, sorry for wasting your time. If you are still inter… more →
Beating Murphy: Surviving The Worst Case
Disability, Disease and Treasuring God
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John Knight wrote 2 weeks ago: Every household should have a copy of Treasuring God in Our Traditions by Noel Piper. Yes, there is … more →
Stargirl
solitaryspinster wrote 3 weeks ago: It starts, oddly enough, with a porcupine necktie and an anonymous act of random kindness. Have you … more →
Don't Waste Your Disease or Disability
John Knight wrote 3 weeks ago: Within weeks of each other in 2006, John Piper and David Powlison were diagnosed with prostate cance … more →
Endure to the End
John Knight wrote 1 month ago: We were weak, fallible, proud and full of sin even before disability entered our family. How can an … more →
Paul Wolfe on Cancer and God's Sovereignty
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John Knight wrote 1 month ago: From Paul Wolfe’s book, My God Is True! Lessons Learned Along Cancer’s Dark Road, p. 14: … more →
Suffering Always Has Meaning
John Knight wrote 1 month ago: From Future Grace by John Piper, pp. 346-347: We do not grasp the great truth that God has purposes … more →
Eugenics, Abortion and the Church Today
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John Knight wrote 1 month ago: For the past two days I’ve reviewed Amy Laura Hall’s essay on the support some pastors a … more →
Why Did Some Churches Promote Eugenics?
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John Knight wrote 2 months ago: Yesterday I introduced Amy Laura Hall’s essay on how some churches actively participated in th … more →
The Church's Role in the Eugenics Movement
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John Knight wrote 2 months ago: The extraordinary evil of the eugenics movement in the United States before World War II is well kno … more →
Green Angel
solitaryspinster wrote 2 months ago: At the beginning of August, I wrote a review of Alice Hoffman’s book The Story Sisters and men … more →
Talk Like A Pirate Day
solitaryspinster wrote 3 months ago: Ahoy me hearties, I see through me spyglass from me lofty perch upon the crow’s nest that Satu … more →
Announcement
Corbin Daniels wrote 3 months ago: So you have been hearing us talk about a big announcement, well here it is. Beatingmurphy.wordpress. … more →
When 'Composite' Means Deception
John Knight wrote 3 months ago: In “Arguing about Genetics and Disability,” Tom Shakespear asserts he is showing two sid … more →
Its Hot!!! (Desert survival in crib note form)
Corbin Daniels wrote 3 months ago: Welcome to the Mid-Week Sneak. I apologize for my absence, as Jeff stated in a previous post, I have … more →
True Love
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solitaryspinster wrote 4 months ago: I had two different posts planned for today and then a book made me cry three different times today. … more →
Ready, Set, Go...Body Type
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solitaryspinster wrote 4 months ago: I picked up an interesting book at the library about six months ago. No, I still don’t have it … more →
Laziness
ramblingconsultant wrote 4 months ago: Last night while reading the book “The Places That Scare You” by Pema Chodron, I was str … more →
Quick Notice
Jeffery Watts wrote 5 months ago: Its Sunday night and by all rights the Weekly Sneak Peek should be up…but it’s not. Sorr … more →
Disasters/Attacks: EMP
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Corbin Daniels wrote 5 months ago: This weekend while trying to decide what topic to cover in this week’s Mid-Week Sneak, it occurred t … more →
