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George Fox University

Faculty Publications - Department of English

2009

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Inventing A Testimony (Chapter 18 Of Jesus Girls: True Tales Of Growing Up Female And Evangelical), Melanie Springer Mock Jan 2009

Inventing A Testimony (Chapter 18 Of Jesus Girls: True Tales Of Growing Up Female And Evangelical), Melanie Springer Mock

Faculty Publications - Department of English

Excerpt: "Several months into my first year of college, I realized there was an optional worship service for students every Sunday evening and that anyone who wanted to be considered a Christian by her peers had better show up. For weeks, I had been blissfully deluded, spending my Sunday evenings running through the hills around town, then . hanging out in the dorm lobby-a lobby which was, I'll admit, eerily empty, as if the rapture had come and carried away everyone except me. Students bursting through the lobby doors on those nights always provided certain relief: I had not missed …


God’S Gift Of Motherhood Comes In Different Ways, Melanie Springer Mock Jan 2009

God’S Gift Of Motherhood Comes In Different Ways, Melanie Springer Mock

Faculty Publications - Department of English

Excerpt: "Seven years ago this May, my husband and I received an email asking if we were interested in adopting a boy, named Do Minh Quan, from Vietnam. The email was both expected, as we had signed with an adoption agency eight months earlier, and unexpected, since we were hoping to adopt an infant boy from India, not Vietnam."