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Dispatches from a wondering, wandering faith and a cross-cultural life

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The Belonging Project

FYSA, I am trying to double post here and on my Substack, but increasingly, I am using that platform.  Over there, I’ve started a new themed project for 2024, please subscribe to follow along. Thanks!  Here’s the posts so far:

How to Spot a Sociopath

Several years before Donald Trump came into our national life, a sociopath came into mine.  A member of our extended family, Tom,1 had recently come out of another, very troubled marriage and found himself a single father with full custody of their small child, Henry. Although Tom’s mother, Ruby, lived nearby and helped out a lot,…

Would the real global church please stand up?

I attended a beautiful Christmas Day church service at a Southern Baptist church in Cape Town, South Africa. The attendees were a racial “rainbow” typical of South Africa, of Cape “Coloureds” (what they call themselves, not derogatory), Black Africans from a few different countries, and a smattering of people whose ethnicity was not readily apparent.…

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