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Fasting and Ashes: Another Look
I'm giving up two things for Lent: television, and sugar.
By Hope Hodge | February 26, 2009; 09:43 PM ET | Comments (0)
Obama: A Spiritual Symbol
The fighter for unity in me rejoices; we have a president-elect who won by a landslide, gained majorities on the coastal states and in much of the heartland, and overcame a century and a half of post-slavery racial prejudice to win.
By Hope Hodge | November 11, 2008; 11:07 AM ET | Comments (0)
A Values Voter At Peace With Either Outcome
We take advantage of our freedom to participate, voting, participating, and praying that the best leader will emerge to guide our country. And yet, at the end of the day, we can be at peace with either outcome.
By Hope Hodge | November 4, 2008; 08:03 AM ET | Comments (0)
Suffering With Others
Now, obligated to revisit The Brothers Karamazov for a literature elective, I'm filled with awe at the author's genius and pathos.
By Hope Hodge | October 25, 2008; 10:16 PM ET | Comments (0)
Will My Faith Survive the Facts?
I went to hear famous atheist Christopher Hitchens speak. Since then, I have been playing with the idea in my head: could I lose my faith if the evidence convinced me? It is a weighty question, and I am a little afraid of it.
By Hope Hodge | September 28, 2008; 02:08 PM ET | Comments (0)
Permission Revoked
Permission to be angry has become permission to overeat, to ignore God, to think impure thoughts, to covet, to curse, and a thousand other things
By Hope Hodge | September 7, 2008; 10:54 PM ET | Comments (0)
Zoom Out on the City
I have a month before school begins, and I want to study each of the spiritual disciplines in the little windows of quiet I have.
By Hope Hodge | August 3, 2008; 12:45 AM ET | Comments (6)
Christian or Catholic?
It won’t make me popular to say it, but I believe God is bigger than the spaces we’ve carved for Him to inhabit.
By Hope Hodge | June 14, 2008; 02:32 PM ET | Comments (10)
Prince Caspian: Allegations of Allegory
C.S. Lewis's work has been called allegory ever since its publication, but Lewis vocally opposed this interpretation of Narnia.
By Hope Hodge | May 25, 2008; 03:04 PM ET | Comments (26)
Weak and Weary (Yet Again)
Whenever I become disillusioned with God, it's only a matter of time before I discover the inconvenient reality; that I'm actually disillusioned with myself.
By Hope Hodge | April 23, 2008; 08:04 PM ET | Comments (1)
The Prosperous Christian
They shall know we are Christians by our wealth?
By Hope Hodge | March 30, 2008; 07:43 PM ET | Comments (14)
Diner Diaries
One of the reasons I’m sure I serve a living God is that sometimes he asks me to do uncomfortable, unreasonable things that I could not have cooked up on my own.
By Hope Hodge | March 15, 2008; 10:36 PM ET | Comments (5)
(Be Ye) Perfect?
I prefer to practice an abbreviated code of Christianity that leaves my thought life and language untouched and frowns heavily on the sins I'm least tempted to.
By Hope Hodge | March 9, 2008; 01:38 PM ET | Comments (6)
Evangelism Isn't a Sales Pitch
It's easy to approach a stranger on the street for a short conversation about God, much harder to build deep and lasting relationships.
By Hope Hodge | February 23, 2008; 10:21 PM ET | Comments (1)
Time Alone with God
The simple act of being intentional with my time alone with God transformed my spiritual life and almost every other relationship I had, which I guess is to say that I was changed.
By Hope Hodge | February 16, 2008; 05:10 PM ET | Comments (5)
