Rachel Marie Stone's Blog, page 17
June 4, 2013
Expansive, holistic, humble, humane…
Karen Swallow Prior has a review of my book up at Flourish, an online magazine that I began writing for ‘way back when, edited by Rusty Pritchard, who edited my first-ever published piece in Creation Care magazine. My most recent contribution to Flourish (which, gee, is no longer very ‘recent’) is a piece on goats […]
June 3, 2013
Reading Classics With Kids (Even as Comic Books)
My dad told me about a series of comic books that were available when he was young—comics based on the plots of books commonly assigned to schoolchildren, which served as CliffNotes in those pre-Internet days when plagiarism generally meant that you copied either from a classmate or from the saved papers of students a year […]
May 30, 2013
Friday Cat
This is how Tiger and I feel about controversies in the blogosphere:
Thursday? Oh No–It’s Too Gruesome.
I really do think that Truman Capote was pretty brilliant, even if his latter years were embarrassing and even if he was an ungraciously jealous friend to Harper Lee, and the novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s is just…something. My favorite Capote piece is actually “A Christmas Memory” (if you haven’t read it, you should. With a […]
May 29, 2013
Evangelicals Climate Change Brownies (with recipe)
A few weeks ago, my family and I had the pleasure of welcoming a bunch of people who were on a trip to Malawi to learn about how climate change is affecting folks here. I’d been in touch with the group’s leaders, including Ben Lowe of the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) about how possibly to […]
May 28, 2013
The Real Stakes in Vaccination And Why Some Kids Aren’t Vaccinated.
Last year, I put myself into some pretty hot water when I wrote a post for Christianity Today’s her.meneutics blog called “Love Your Neighbor. Get Your Vaccines.” Well, ‘hot water’ in the sense that I had angry folks stalking me around the Internet to say mean things to me. At the time I wrote the […]
May 27, 2013
Remember and Then Feast; It’s Not BBQ Day
I was perhaps seven years old when I first read the first few books in the American Girl ‘Molly’ series, even though I didn’t actually receive the coveted doll until the Christmas I was ten. It’s hard to say what made me love Molly more than the other American Girl characters then available: Kirsten, the […]
May 24, 2013
Friday Cat
Why, yes, last week, I DID happen to see a mother cat nursing a kitten in the grocery store; thanks for asking!
May 23, 2013
It’s The First International Day to End Obstetric Fistula
Today is the first International Day to End Obstetric Fistula. Please read on to learn about this devastating condition that affects millions of women in some of the poorest and most remote regions of the globe. “An obstetric fistula,” I said, standing in the pulpit of my 200-year old church, “is a hole between a […]
The Best Pizza in the World Is Still the Best.
Improbably enough, there is an excellent Italian restaurant in Zomba, but they don’t serve pizza. I did, however, discuss pizza with the owner, not in order to demand that he make it but in order to get in my point, which is that a truly great NY slice of pizza can hold its head up […]
