Marilyn R. Gardner's Blog, page 77
July 30, 2015
The Heart Demands Conversation
“The heart does not want coffee or cafe, The heart demands conversation with friends, Coffee is the excuse in this …
July 28, 2015
To Iraq
The text came on an Ecclesiastical day – a day when I was despairing that there was nothing new under …
July 25, 2015
Shards of Glass
Last Monday, after a lot of thinking, I wrote a post to Franklin Graham. Graham had made a public …
July 24, 2015
He Won’t Have a Pancake this Year
He Won’t Have a Pancake This Year by Robynn Yesterday my sixteen-year-old daughter was trying to teach me how to …
July 23, 2015
The Anatomy of a Hate
It is as I am reading Unbroken that I suddenly feel a rage toward a people group I don’t even …
July 22, 2015
How do You Open Your Heart?
A year ago I wrote a piece called “People Have Friends; Governments have Interests.” A friend of mine made this …
July 20, 2015
Dear Mr. Graham, Let me Introduce you to Some Friends….
Dear Mr. Graham, I’d like to introduce you to some friends of mine. The first friend is Golnaz. Golnaz is …
These are the People in My Neighborhood
Our street is a short, one-way street, four blocks from the Charles River. It’s lined with three-family homes, built at …
July 18, 2015
We are all Witnesses: Planned Parenthood, Eric Garner (Et al.), and Life in the Age of Footage
Originally posted on Thicket of the Jordan:
Ask the athletes, and they will tell you. The camera disabuses us of false perceptions of…
Ask the athletes, and they will tell you. The camera disabuses us of false perceptions of…
July 17, 2015
Carrying One Another’s Burdens
A couple of months ago a friend who lives in Turkey asked me what it looks like for us …
