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How My Atheist Boyfriend Helps Me Remember My Sense of God’s Calling

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Actively Advocating / Answering the Call / Cupid's Aim / Ministerial Madness

Let me just preface this by saying: it’s not because I constantly feel the need to convert him. In fact, I never feel that need. No, The Dude, who is an affirmed atheist (or, as he’d probably prefer, humanist–it’s more pro-humans than anti-divinity) frequently reminds me of my first and strongest sense of a call to ministry in his continued incredulity of my profession. At first, there was mutual bemusement by both of us with […]

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Adoption / Cupid's Aim / Family Ties / Foster Care / Heart Aches / In Transition / Parenting Skills and Spills / Wrestling with Angels

Well, it happened, as I knew it would. Although he often seemed ok with The Dude, many other times E was giving signs that this new relationship was not ok with him. I was waiting for the blow-up, and last night it came. It was a doozy. Lasting for almost an hour, it included screaming, swearing, stomping, slamming and shoving. E was literally foaming at the mouth. So much came out in his rants, that […]