People who equate truth with fact are missing the point.
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By Adrienne, on August 5th, 2013
Church exists in culture and is populated by fallible humans and God is not up in heaven, expecting us to know stuff we haven’t yet learned. Just like you wouldn’t give your hungry child a stone, you wouldn’t expect your kindergartner to do calculus. . . . → Read More: Doing Church in the New Millennium
By Adrienne, on June 18th, 2012
 Parenting a child with serious mental illness is easier if you can mostly ignore the future. . . . → Read More: Too Vast a Project
By Adrienne, on February 13th, 2012
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 3.1 (except it’s less of a part and more of an interlude) Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 If you haven’t read parts 1-6, that’s OK. This one stands pretty well all by itself.
Peek with me into a house and observe the family therein.
There’s . . . → Read More: The Transcendent Familiar 7: Choking on the Ashes
By Adrienne, on August 11th, 2011
 Here’s the thing: in the beginning, everyone is lost and alone.
No matter how a person goes from being parent to parent of a child with disabilities, in the beginning the world turns itself ass-end-up.
Whenever the news comes or the realization dawns—during pregnancy, immediately or shortly after birth or adoption, or later—there is . . . → Read More: In the Beginning
By Adrienne, on August 9th, 2011
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 3.1 (except it’s less of a part and more of an interlude) Part 4 Part 5 However, maybe you didn’t read those, and maybe you want to read one post and not 6. Fair enough. Here’s what you need to know: Robert was my first husband. We . . . → Read More: The Transcendent Familiar 6: Love Is Not a Victory March
By Adrienne, on July 1st, 2011
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Some stories are like laundry. The longer you put off telling them, the bigger they grow.
This story, the one about my earliest adulthood and my relationship with Jacob and Abbie’s dad, has reached the ceiling, toppled over, and begun to spread across the hall and into the . . . → Read More: The Transcendent Familiar 3.1: I Won’t Fade Away

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