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About Stephanie Phillips
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New Year, Same Us. Again.
I used to love New Year’s resolutions. Are you kidding me? I grew up in a Southern church! I’d compose a list of them the week after Christmas and shove it into whichever version of the Evangelical Teen Guided Quiet Time Devotional Notebook was popular in my youth group that year, certain that within days […]
Dogs, Play, and the Terrifying Open-Endedness of Grace
Our family welcomed a dog into our ranks two months ago, and believe me when I tell you, it has been a journey. Kevin, named after our younger son’s kindergarten teacher (as well as the lead characters from Home Alone and The Wonder Years), is a white lab whom we picked up from a farm […]
On Cities Unseen: Living in the Homelessness of Grace
We are Settled until We are Unsettled, Home and Yet Not. It’s a Weird Way to Live.
All the Lies I’ve Believed about the Spectrum (and the Truth)
On Autism, Parenting, and the Hope of Love
Come Get Your Manna: Feasting on the Mysteries of God’s Justice
Fleming Rutledge and Quantum Physics on a Verb-Like World
Tell It Like It Will Be: On the Only Word that Matters
Let’s Talk (Honestly) about Our Confusion and Loneliness and Hope
Compassion, Connection, and the Singular “With” of the Gospel
This is the Moment: His Presence in the Present
Life in the Time of Coronavirus: What to Do in Quarantine
Movies, Podcasts, TV shows, Books, and More
Sitting Shiva for Kobe: On the Complicated Nature of Grief, and Humans
If there’s anything the movie This Is Where I Leave You taught me — besides that Tina Fey should not do accents — it’s about shiva, the Jewish tradition in response to the death of an immediate family member. I’d heard of shiva before but for the first time saw it dramatized in the film, […]
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