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“Sexplainer” is a fabulous resource for talking with kids (and sometimes for talking with older people) about bodies, about gender, about sexuality, and so on.

I’m not been a big fan of the ‘Doom and Gloom’ preaching of my faith roots, but lately those ghosts are revisiting me.

I'm saying that God will reveal truth about my circumstance when it's time, and not one second sooner, and that I have no right to presume I already know what that truth is.

Joy is different than happiness. Joy never depends on outside circumstances.

Kent suggests to us that, when we encounter a child who is acting out or is in a rage or is deeply sorrowful, we refrain from saying, “Why is he acting like that?” or “She’s just looking for attention.”

Disgust, it turns out, is a very personal but also often cultural value. Sometimes we call people who take pleasure in something we find disgusting, "ghoulish" or "sick" but they are just making different choices.

One of Nouwen's problems as a writer, teacher, priest and confidante was that he spent a lot of time wondering how other people reacted to what he said/wrote/taught, and how he said/wrote/taught it.