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For the last five years, I’ve been a part of a religious community that prays the —Mary’s song of praise upon finding herself pregnant with Jesus—twice a day. 

Among the recurring stress dreams commonly reported by people, perhaps this is the most familiar: you show up at school only to realize that you’ve forgotten about a quiz or final exam.

Dating can be one of the scariest, most confusing, and most joyful times of life. 

The goal of disciplined piano practice is not to master the piano.

In our roughly 12x12 family office (with about 6.5-foot ceilings, I might add), I embarrassingly have 39 items with a San Francisco 49ers logo on them. 

There are so many things wrong with this. Not with the fact, but with the title. 

A therapist once pointedly suggested that I was experiencing shame. I promptly suggested she was wrong.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was, without a doubt, a great leader.

But he was a great follower first.

Right now the Internet is full of predictions, invitations to new year’s resolutions, and promises about what 2017 could be with the right [insert latest product/diet/happy thought here].

If I, a woman, were to write the gospel of the entry of God into the world as one of us, I’m pretty sure I would not start with his human genealogy, as Matthew does.