In that same NPR story, the women had experienced people saying well-meaning but terribly hurtful things, as had many of the people who posted comments on the site afterwards. When I hear what some Christians say to others, especially to someone in difficult circumstances, I often cringe.  God is a name, a placeholder, for that …

I go to the kitchen to pull some meat off chicken bones for dinner. NOT one of my favorite tasks! The chicken is cold, there’s little bits of bone and skin that you have to be careful to get off the chicken, and I am not a detail person. But, I am a good cook, …

I need to tackle the name of this blog again.  It started when I was overseas but I never really wrote about cooking and grace in Lagos, Nigeria! (see earlier post on this subject) There are a couple of things about me that I love.  I love to cook and bake, and I see Grace …

I am always fascinated by stories of faith or the apparent lack of faith. NPR recently ran a series on how people are losing religion, and coping without it.  It things agot me thinking.  One is that underlying the story is a confusion of terms: faith is not the same thing as religion.  Atheists have …