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    “Adventure” awaited

    February 11, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    “Let’s drive to Baja, and keep going till we reach tropical blue water.” And he meant it. He was always saying things like this. When we met, his way of asking me out had been “Let’s go on a big long walk until we get really exhausted.” I laughed, and two years later, here we were engaged.  “How far is…

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  • Teaching - Writing

    Look Out, I’m Slicing!

    February 10, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    That’s right, and I don’t just mean playing Fruit Ninja. I’m saying that finally, FINALLY this is the year that I can join the Slice of Life Challenge over at Two Writing Teachers. Can I really write something sharable, daily, for more than two days in a row? Honestly, I can do almost NOTHING with any consistency. But I’m giving…

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  • Faith

    Holy Spirit, Ever Dwelling

    March 7, 2019 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    Devotional time! My church does a Lenten devotional each year written by us, for us, and this year we’re thinking about a favorite hymn. I picked Holy Spirit, Ever Dwelling. Ever. Not just sometimes, not just when the time is right, not just when expected, not just when we feel it. The Holy Spirit is EVER dwelling within us and everywhere.…

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    The blessing of an extreme lack of authority

    November 15, 2017 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    I wish someone had told me years and years ago:  It is not only OK, it is a gift to possess no authority or expertise whatsoever. Sure, in areas of life in which I am the responsible party, I need authority to carry out my work. And I’ve spent a good chunk of my professional life thinking hard about the…

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  • Writing

    What summer writing looks like

    July 24, 2017 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    Guest post this week on Writers Who Care! It’s late summer and all is quiet on the seminary front. United Lutheran Seminary is now a reality, not a plan, but for me that just meant that no courses were offered this summer. So, a break. But quiet on the work and seminary front means things go noisy and active on…

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  • Teaching - Writing

    Writing is hard

    May 24, 2017 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    Writing is hard. No, seriously: it's really, really hard.

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  • Faith - Writing

    On making time to pray like I make time to write (when there isn’t any)

    March 30, 2017 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    On time for writing-- and time for praying

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  • Faith

    Shine your light

    March 27, 2017 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    What does it mean to be a light? How good do I have to be? How shiny?

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  • Faith

    Saved from What?

    March 20, 2017 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    Driving on the highways of Texas and New Mexico, the neon crosses and stark billboards would loom in the distance for miles before you could read them: “Jesus Saves.” Or in the street, at a park, or at a public event, a stranger with a handful of tracts might ask, “Are you saved?” For most of my life, and especially…

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  • Faith

    Fairest, Beautiful

    March 18, 2017 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    The first hymn I ever loved was “Fairest Lord Jesus,” in our hymnal as “Beautiful Savior” (ELW 838). Having not been raised in the church, then coming home from summer camp wanting to find out everything I could about God, I listened to the Christian radio station in Houston. Mixed in there with a lot of very bad theology and political…

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