The Donkey This Christmas

I've been traveling and hosting guests this week, but wanted to update you on the latest news about The Donkey In the Living Room. For those of you who didn't follow last year's holiday hoopla, The Donkey In the Living Room is a book I wrote that invites kids to unwrap a different figure from the manger scene each day leading up to Christmas. After revealing the figurine--say a lamb or an angel--they then read the Christmas story from that character's perspective. Last year I created ...

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Customer Writes Racist Remarks on Restaurant Bill; Waitress Gets Surprise Tip

ABC news is reporting that a story about how good people refused to let a waitress at Red Lobster lose her tip because of her race.

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Thank You, Readers

This is a season of sharing for me. Sharing a new book I believe in or posts I've written. But today is a good day to take a break from all that and tell you how much your real life and online support mean to me. Writing is like a lot of your own occupations and hobbies. It is personally meaningful, but sometimes the writer is greeted with criticism or silence that make it tempting to stop taking risks and putting themselves out there. But every time someone leaves a note that they read ...

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Little Marios: How Having Siblings Should Impact Your Faith

When you can see other people--even those annoying people who have appointed themselves to be God's Republican or Democratic Social Media vigilantes--as brothers and sisters, as chips off the same block, as different versions of ourselves, love is the only response that makes sense.

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