by Karen Zurheide | Oct 23, 2002 | Opinion
Growing up in New Hampshire, the child of born-again-yet-mainline Christian parents, there was never a question about Halloween. Almost everyone in our little town of 3,000 participated. The only questions surrounding Halloween were how cold it would be and how many...
by Karen Zurheide | Aug 30, 2002 | Opinion
In such an appearance-obsessed culture, what messages do we parents want to give our children about the way they look? With all this “self-improvement” taking place around us, should I encourage my children to strive for their own perfect images, to appear...
by Karen Zurheide | Jul 15, 2002 | Opinion
Much has been written over the past decade about “worship wars”—those battles within and between churches over worship style and content. Christian Century recently reported that the chief factor correlated with church growth is worship style. Churches...
by Karen Zurheide | Jun 5, 2002 | Opinion
I recently toured a domestic violence shelter. The facility is a secure site, and visitors are required to sign confidentiality agreements, pledging not to reveal the location or anything about the victims of domestic violence who stay there. Estimates vary, but one...
by Karen Zurheide | May 8, 2002 | Opinion
About 10 years ago, my then-four-year-old daughter voiced an unusual bedtime prayer. With the kind of sincerity heard only in a young child, she asked God to “let the poor have everything we have.” This prayer caught me off guard. To be sure, I was...
