Tag: Christ
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In Sickness and In Health
When I married Chad in 2009, his father’s prostate cancer was already diagnosed and treatment was underway. It’s been a long journey. For a while, there was much hope that maybe it was under control, but in December 2011, right around Christmas, we gathered as a family to hear the details of the cancer’s aggressive…
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My Father-in-Law
I met my in-laws for the first time about six weeks after Chad and I had been dating. We were studying abroad together in France our junior year of college, and his family came over to visit for Christmas. I met the whole family at once: Chad’s parents, his older brother and sister, and his brother’s…
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Eve, Beyond the Sin
I began a women’s bible study a couple weeks ago at my church called 12 Women of the Bible. Recently, I have been doing a bit of research and reading about women’s roles in the church and what the bible actually says about this, so this study sounded appropriate and promising. What spurred this dig…
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Being Church
I believe I’m a writer at heart. I express myself best– clearest and most open and thoughtful– through writing and that’s always been true. I was a note-writer in elementary and middle school. I always excelled academically, due in large part to my ability to write clear, well thought-out papers and essays. I think in…
jamie y. watkins 