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Planned Parenthood Tweets must be written by The Onion…

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I’ve written previously about the tone-deaf nature of Planned Parenthood tweets, so much so that I had wondered if a pro-lifer had secretly infiltrated their ranks. Now I’m starting to think that they’re actually written by someone from the satire site, The Onion…

Planned Parenthood cares so much about keeping mother and child together and about celebrating fatherhood…

You know your founder, Margaret Sanger, was a eugenicist, right?!

Well, Planned Parenthood has a way of avoiding needing to go to the delivery room at all…

Music Monday: Live like you’re loved

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Something a little lighter this week: Hawk Nelson’s “Live live you’re loved”…

You’re not the only one who feels like this
Feelin’ like you lose more than you win
Like life is just an endless hill you climb
You try and try, but never arrive

I’m tellin’ you somethin’
This racing, this running
Oh, you’re working way too hard! (You’re working way too hard)
And this perfection you’re chasing
Is just energy wasted
Cause he love’s you like you are!

So go ahead and live like you’re loved
It’s ok to act like you’ve been set free
His love has made you more than enough
So go ahead and be who he made you to be

And live like you’re loved
Live like you’re loved
Live like you’re loved
Live like you’re loved

And live like you’re know you’re valuable
Like you know the one that hold your soul
Cause mercy has called you by your name
Don’t be afraid to live in that grace

I’m tellin’ you somethin’
This God we believe in
Yeah, he changed everything
No more guilt! No more shame!
He took all that away
Gave us a reason to sing

So go ahead and live like you’re loved
It’s ok to act like you’ve been set free
His love has made you more than enough
So go ahead and be who he made you to be

And live like you’re loved
Live like you’re loved
Live like you’re loved
Live like you’re loved

Live like you’re loved, walk like you’re free
Stand like you know, who he made you to be
Live like you’re loved, like you believe
His love is all, that you’ll ever need

So go ahead and live like you’re loved
His love has made you more than enough

So go ahead and live like you’re loved
It’s ok to act like you’ve been set free
His love has made you more than enough
So go ahead and be who he made you to be

Planet Narnia

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In our monthly C.S. Lewis book club, we’ve nearly completed “The Great Divorce”. When we’re finished with that book, we’re going to begin “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”. I’ve loved the Chronicles of Narnia ever since I was very little. Particularly after rereading them as an adult, I thought I understood them very well. Great was my surprise, therefore, when I first heard about “Planet Narnia”, a theory put forward by Michael Ward outlining another layer of meaning behind each book in the series…

What pilgrims do

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A friend of mine forwarded me an email from her daily email reflections…

That is very simply what a pilgrim does: walk. And it is the way the pilgrim prays, with his or her feet. And the feet walk through dark clouds to illumination to the light that is holy action. Through dark, cloud-filled days to a hint of subtle lightening to the sun breaking through, the feet taking us where we least thought we’d go, where before we had thought darkness dwelt, and finding there instead, in bright sunlight, the broken, the poor, the marginal, those made ugly or disfigured by abuse and oppression and woundedness.

We are changed simply by walking, rain or shine, toward and back from whatever shrine we had thought contained our hope and longing. We walk back toward what was there all along that we could not see.

— from Enter Assisi: An Invitation to Franciscan Spirituality

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