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Laura Barringer

@laurabarringer.substack.com
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Writer | Speaker | Teacher | Co-author of award-nominated A CHURCH CALLED TOV + PIVOT | Fellow with Baylor Center for School Leadership Links: linktr.ee/lauraebarringer

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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 29/12/2025
Good Words for a Good Year open.substack.com/pub/laurabar...
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Good Words for a Good Year
My Favorite Reads of 2025
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 24/11/2025
Blessed are the undocumented. open.substack.com/pub/laurabar...
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BLESSED ARE THE UNDOCUMENTED
For they will be always invited
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 13/11/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 22/10/2025
Why is the East Wing demolition making me feel so sad?
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 19/10/2025
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The Sacred Rhythm of Yom Kippur for Christ Followers
Author’s Note
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 13/10/2025
Is your church toxic or Tov for women? (Would you kindly subscribe to my free substack?) open.substack.com/pub/laurabar...
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Is Your Church Toxic or Tov for Women?
What clues indicate a culture of toxicity? What red flags ought to grab our attention?
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 13/10/2025
I just finished Beloved by Toni Morrison. It’s one of the most haunting books I’ve ever read. Trauma doesn’t end with the event that caused it.
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 11/10/2025
I didn’t want to write this piece, but the words poured from my soul. This weekend marks Willow Creek’s 50th anniversary, and the harm echoes louder than its celebration. #spiritualabuse julieroys.com/did-willow-c...
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Did Willow Creek Skip Yom Kippur — Again?
Repeated failures by Willow Creek to confront the churchs past shows a missed Yom Kippur moment of truth & repentance, writes Laura Barringer
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 26/09/2025
I started the day in kindergarten and ended the day at @baylorcsl.bsky.social. Beginning and ending, how blessed I am. #SicEm
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 04/09/2025
Isn’t this cute, @kkdumez.bsky.social?!
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 12/08/2025
To my Bible-study-loving friends: reading Amy Jill Levine is a must.
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 08/08/2025
This TOV Kindle deal is available at all major eBook retailers from August 1-31.... www.amazon.com/Church-Calle...
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 01/07/2025
Nothing in all creation can separate you from his deep and lasting and abiding love. #tovtuesday
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 22/06/2025
How did Jesus conquer? Not by military strength as Israel expected — but rather as a suffering Servant who gave away his life. The King of the Kingdom taught and lived a peaceful ethic. Come, Lord Jesus.
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 22/06/2025
I tend to be a pacifist anyways, but thanking God for a successful war operation seems heretical to me. Christ and his kingdom are peaceful and just. War and violence are not the way of the cross.
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 14/06/2025
Hey @scotmcknight.bsky.social… look what you’re “missing” on X.
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 12/06/2025
Why are they called messengers? #sbc2025
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 03/06/2025
Why
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 30/05/2025
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 28/05/2025
“Don’t you want to be a MAN?” my kindergartener asks her classmate complaining of his finger pain. “BRUSH IT OFF,” she tells him. And there you have it. My work is done.
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 28/05/2025
Don’t miss this Tov (tov!) giveaway. @julieroys.bsky.social is giving away four copies. Details below.
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 09/05/2025
IN THE POPE I HOPE
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 20/04/2025
Christos anesti! ✝️
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 13/04/2025
Had a lovely Passover meal in my Jewish friend’s home last night. We ate haroset and bitter herbs and sang Hebrew hymns with a room full of Ashkenazi friends. Tov.
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 29/03/2025
My latest article for Accord magazine, Creating Cultures of Tov (part two): drive.google.com/file/d/1tnRl...
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 23/03/2025
I know I’m immersed in @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social’s history when I hear a Sunday sermon on John’s letter to the church at Thyatira and my thoughts about Jezebel are YES BUT SHE WAS A PROPHET LEADING IN A CHURCH. #becomingthepastorswife
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 06/03/2025
Our latest podcast (Tov-cast!), with the good folks at My Spring Harvest: shows.acast.com/67adec0f9b1e...
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Culture and Leadership with Scott McNight and Laura Barringer | Becoming: A My Spring Harvest Podcast
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 01/03/2025
Obviously this is the least of our concerns but what a war-torn president wears to the Oval Office matters not. Zelensky dresses appropriately for his country’s sorrow and turmoil.
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 25/02/2025
Just landed in Orlando for Converge 2025! Super excited to talk Tov with school leaders in the morning. converge.education/speakers/
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Speakers - Converge 2025
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 16/02/2025
I watched a WW2 documentary last night about post-war Germany. The country investigated its own self for post-war crimes. Coincidentally, very few Nazi prison camp guards were brought to justice.
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 14/02/2025
Morning, friends. You are deeply loved every day.❤️
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 14/02/2025
My alma mater is in the news again. Seriously, whose ego can make such a claim about the departure of God’s glory? — Has the glory of God departed from Wheaton? Through weak and docile leadership, regrettably, it has. firstthings.com/god-and-man-...
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God and Man at Wheaton - First Things
Wheaton College once produced some of the boldest Christian voices in America. With graduates like Billy Graham, Jim and Elisabeth Elliot, John Piper, and William Lane Craig, and with...
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 11/02/2025
I thought for sure I had pink eye (in both eyes) yet my doctor says it’s a HEAD COLD SPREAD TO MY EYES. What in the world. 😷🤒🤧
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 09/02/2025
Anne is a global health worker from Montana who worked on the President's Malaria Initiative – a USAID-funded project that aims to stop malaria from killing kids. This is her story: www.youcanknowthings.com/w/
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"America is great because America is good"
USAID has been essentially shut down. USAID is a federal organization that provides international humanitarian assistance like clean water, food, and medicines to impoverished parts of the world. It ...
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 04/02/2025
So good, by @kkdumez.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/kristind...
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Where we are now
Things are moving fast, as expected.
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 31/01/2025
“The problem in our classroom,” says my kindergarten student to her classmates, “is all of you are sinning.” 😂 It’s hard to have a bad day in kindergarten!
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 29/01/2025
I can’t stand the thought of elderly in their homes not getting Meals on Wheels deliveries. Please no. 🙏🏼
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 27/01/2025
Well — one less stress for us, folks. We shan’t concern ourselves with Taylor’s Eras tour schedule and whether or not she can arrive to the Super Bowl with time to spare.
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David French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
End the pardon power. It's an outdated vestige of royalty, and it's been abused too many times.
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Dr. Derwin L. Gray @derwinlgray.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Dr. King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail is a masterclass in weaving theology, philosophy, and history into a call for justice. Read it 👇🏿✝️ africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/L… #mlkday2025
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Roys Report @roysreport.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
In Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech, calling for support of black sanitation workers on strike over poor work conditions, he challenged his audience to develop a “dangerous unselfishness.” His example and call is to reframe how we respond to injustice. julieroys.com/dangerous-un...
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The Dangerous Unselfishness of Martin Luther King Jr.
In his struggle against injustice, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called his movement to a dangerous unselfishness in his final speech.
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Dr. Derwin L. Gray @derwinlgray.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Have you read Dr. King's, "Letter From A Birmingham Jail,"? It is one of the greatest literary pieces of the 20th century. It's worth the 24 minutes it takes to read. #mlkday2025 www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 20/01/2025
Well. What did everyone eat for their last supper?
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Dr. Derwin L. Gray @derwinlgray.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The Jesus of Scripture, the God who is love, was called a drunkard and a friend of sinners. The sinners saw his holiness and felt the hope of a new life with him. May we, too, become friends to sinners, inviting the to join us in the light. www.derwinlgray.com/litupwithlove
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Allan R. Bevere @arbevere.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Here's one for the theobros.
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 12/01/2025
Mark just asked me what King Charles is doing these days and I answered his question in confident detail.👊🏻
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 01/01/2025
It’s a new year and I’m here to tell you I did not meet my 2024 reading goal and the world did not end.
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Russell Moore @drmoore.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Here’s my essay in @theatlantic.com on what I learned from praying with Jimmy Carter: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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What I Learned From Praying With Jimmy Carter
“Everything has a way of coming back around,” the former president said. “What seems unstoppable and inevitable never is.”
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Laura Barringer @laurabarringer.substack.com · 27/12/2024
My latest article, on creating cultures of goodness. I wrote this for Accord journal of Association of Christians in Counselling and Linked Professions: www.laurabarringer.net/articles-ess...
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LAURA BARRINGER | WRITER - ARTICLES + ESSAYS
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