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On September 21 Santa Barbara Community Church will begin her thirtieth year of ministry in our community.  To paraphrase the Grateful Dead, What a long, great trip it’s been.  We began in a living room … Read More

by Cari Stone When our daughter, Hannah turned five my husband Phil and I opted out of a party and instead took her to a Build-A-Bear store.  We figured one morning and one stuffed … Read More

by Kelly Soifer We drive for an hour or more in a beat up minivan called Old Blue. It drinks oil like mad, and its gears grind and grunt as it lurches over muddy … Read More

by Chase Koop On many Wednesday nights his weary hazel eyes would peer through his thick glasses. He always seemed to be carrying a heavy burden that weighed almost visibly on his Jansport backpack … Read More

by Jill Baker One day last fall, my four year-old daughter, Ruth, found me assembling our guestroom into working order. As I shifted the linens and adjusted the quilt, Ruth quietly questioned why I … Read More

by Vijay Jayaraman I don’t always read my copy of MIT’s bi-monthly Technology Review, but the January 2006 issue, featuring an article entitled The Internet is Broken, was an exception. This article detailed how … Read More

When the years and decades slip away we sometimes find that one era’s red-hot disciple has become another era’s backslidden, lukewarm, un-Christian-couch-potato. Today’s hand-rasin’, Bible-quotin’ prayer-warrior sometimes morphs into tomorrow’s languid, listless lover of Sunday … Read More

It was Bob Dylan who sang . . . You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.  If he wrote the song today the line might be, You don’t need to … Read More

by Melanie Pearlman Okay, I admit it, I do problems in my college physics textbook for fun.  Will you trust a book review by me?  I’ve got one to recommend “for non-majors”, though, that … Read More

by Marty Robertson A Rocha Santa Barbara (ARSB) is official. On April 11th Rich Dixon and I presented plans for our ARSB community group to the A Rocha US Board of Directors, A Rocha … Read More