Moments Before Stumbling

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“Jesus has already decided that he, like the father in his story, wants to be in the house with all the sinners. Now he is hoping that the religious folks will join him. He knows it is a stretch. They have trained themselves to reject people, convincing themselves and each other that separation is pious and necessary.”




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Corina Midgett

Corina lives with her husband and their three teenagers outside of Washington, DC -- a long haul from Western Canada where she grew up. She has spent the last twelve years homeschooling their kids and reading a lot of really good books. In her former life, she obtained a graduate degree in Family Relations and Human Development and worked in child development laboratories in Canada and the US. She is partial to words, ideas, the Psalms, children's literature, ice cream, long walks, lists, and the Oxford comma.

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