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I don’t know that being pregnant made me more forgetful. (I did have a precipitous decline in my vocabulary, though…) But the combination of little sleep and the general distraction of having a cute baby around (sometimes I just sit and look at him because he’s that wonderful…), well, that combination has my brain pretty [...]
Usually for me, when NPR and church occur in the same thought, it has to do with frustration around stewardship campaigns at church which are run using similar language to the NPR membership drive (“Think of the benefits you get from our church: and because of our wonderful service to you, you should give!!!”) That [...]
This is the third of three posts that go together. Birthing Abram and The Details are the first two. If you don’t like reading birth stories, you may want to skip The Details. This post is less about the details and more of a theological reflection on giving birth. Abram and Zora were both born [...]
This is a multi-part post…in this section, I’m writing about some of the details about Abram’s birth. A little bit of introduction in Birthing Abram. In a subsequent post, Spiritual or Embodied I write some reflection on birthing. If birth stories make you queasy, you might want to skip this post, and go on to [...]
Abram Orville Schemper Vorhes born February 13, 2011, 3:58pm 9 lbs 6 oz, 22 inches Within 24 hours after Abram was born, I was already taking notes on something I wanted to write about birth and bodies, maybe a little theology…I suppose this is a sign that my head was clear, or maybe that I [...]