“Where are you from?” she asked as we chatted on the elevator. I was so jarred by the question that I stuttered and responded, “uhh, from here?” to which she replied, “No, like where are you from from?” For many, this conversation is familiar. In the United States, if you are not white, more than...
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I recently spent a week staying with some of my dearest friends. Their kids are ages five, seven, nine, and 12, and man, do they know how to get under one another’s skin. They know just the thing to say, just the tone to use, and just the face to make to send another sibling...
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Who knew spitting into a plastic tube would become such a popular pastime? Not to mention lucrative. The direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing market — think 23andMe or AncestryDNA — has skyrocketed since it was first launched in the early 2000s. Today, it generates $1.3 billion dollars and is projected to grow four-fold before 2030, to...
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Two of the most talked about books of 2017, though going about it in very different ways, are both asking the same question: How do we experience Life-to-the-Full?
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He was already old, carrying the promise, his staff, some wealth – that was true – and what? A dream? What was it the LORD had said? “Go? Leave? And I will bless you?” Was that it? It had seemed enough then. He had been younger, heaven help him. Hopefully not naïve, although by anyone’s...
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Spending time with my in-laws can be a bit confusing. Don’t get me wrong; we enjoy each other. But, you see, they speak a different language from me. I don’t mean the different languages of rural and urban, or East Coast and West Coast, or even British and American. No; they speak Arabic, and I...
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