Author: Rhonda Schrock

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Jul 20, 2020

How social justice looks (and it’s not a cause)

“Day is dying in the west.” Tonight, I grabbed my phone, and my family and I headed off into the sunset. In the coming dusk, we passed lush, green crops

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Jul 03, 2020

Why “color matters” on Independence Day

On a hot July night, we’re out with our Amish friends. Covid has kept us from our evenings in town for dinner and shopping, and it’s been months. We’re finally

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Jun 29, 2020

It’s not debate we need, it’s Jesus

FacebookTwitterGoogle+DiggPinterestBloggerFrom controversies over masks to Black Lives Matter; from disputes over race, reparations, and religion to statues defaced and cops in the cross hairs, these are perilous and upsetting times.

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Jun 06, 2020

America’s small, caffeinated mom to two black men: “You are my fellow Americans”

Sitting in the food court, I look to my right. Two handsome, young, black men occupy the bench beside me. They’re laughing and talking, bantering back and forth, and then

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Jun 03, 2020

A Mother Prays for America

Dear God, I come to you in the name of Your son, Jesus, on behalf of my country. You have never turned me away. You have never failed to hear

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May 09, 2020

Why you don’t have to win “Mother of the Year”

It’s a Saturday morning. We are still in our pajamas, as is our wont, starting the day real slow. I glance over at The Cub, a cozy cat in his

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Apr 09, 2020

Local mother recruits federal FART agents, states the KRAPP is keeping her mentally agile

South Bend, IN — In our ongoing series on the corona virus, a local mother reports that in three weeks of quarantining, she and her husband have become “full-fledged KOOKS. We’ve been

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Apr 02, 2020

We are all “essential workers” in that kingdom

“Essential. Nonessential.” We’re hearing it a lot these days in reference to workers and businesses. Odd times we are in, for sure. Recently, someone shared with me her struggle with

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Mar 23, 2020

When you’re “shut out (quarantined)”, He attends

Over the weekend, friends of ours received word that their daughter had been in a bad accident. She was flown to a hospital…where her parents could not go. That quarantine?

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Mar 20, 2020

Through a glass darkly

In this one photo, I am looking at our current reality. This darling, little mother is in a nursing home just up the road from here. Her daughter took the

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