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This week we ended the book of Genesis. It’s a very special ending: the firstending of the first book. Let’s look at the final two chapters in order to understand whatthe end of Genesis means for the beginning of Exodus and the beginning of Luke’sGospel.Siblings are really interesting. I have two, and our differences have alwaysfascinated me. We grew up in the same household with the same two pare...

In the late 1970s, the book When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Rabbi Harold Kushner made The New York Times Best Sellers list. Apparently, he scratched an itch for a lot of people. The book attempted to answer the question: “If God is loving and all-powerful, why does He allow bad things to happen to good people?” For example, why doesn't God stop a drunk driver from killing an innocent chil...

I am a proud recipient of the ‘Cootie Shot’. In fact, throughout my elementaryschool days, I received that shot on hundreds of different occasions from theplayground doctors (all of which were little girls who were equally as terrified ofboys as I was). For those of you who do not know what this is, it is a ceremonyperformed on playgrounds across the world that says “Circle, circle, dot, dot, nowy...