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Oct 28, 2024 | 
crosswalk.com | Melinda Cooper
Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
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Oct 31, 2024
Nobody prepared me for letting go of family traditions. To be honest, I really never thought that far ahead of my daily life raising a family. But sooner than later, my first two sons were no longer little boys but had grown into men. My little family grew larger through marriage and we were blessed with two daughters-in-law. The blessings are innumerable.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
crosswalk.com | Melinda Cooper
Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
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Sep 26, 2024
“I’m so lonely.”Those sad words spoken by an elderly woman at my church when I was a teenager have never been forgotten. Her pale blue eyes were etched with the pain of loneliness. To this day, her words ring in my ears and it’s a good forty years since she said them. The reason it’s etched into my memory, I believe, is because I felt her pain.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
annpettifor.substack.com | Lisa Adkins |Melinda Cooper |Martijn Konings |Ann Pettifor
Continuous and accurate valuation of assets is at the nerve-wracking heart of today’s financial capitalism. Flawed valuations can be the cause of systemic crisis - and of losses for investors and pensioners - unless and until we are compelled to face reality. Why so? readers may ask. Karl Marx hinted at an answer in The Communist Manifesto. “All that is solid” he wrote, “melts into air.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
nplusonemag.com | Melinda Cooper
There are probably more left-wing anglophone academics who have written about neoliberalism than those who have not. A critique compressed into a word, the term’s explanatory power had collapsed under the weight of too many monographs well before Australian sociologist Melinda Cooper’s 2017 book Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
crosswalk.com | Melinda Cooper
4. Honor God Even When the ‘Creek Rises’
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Growing up Mom said often, “If the good Lord’s willing, and the creek don’t rise.” Another hard lesson I learned is sometimes the creek does rise. Last year, we received a phone call in the middle of the night from our oldest son. Our daughter-in-law was in labor. The problem was she wasn’t due yet. She was twenty-one weeks pregnant with our granddaughter, Nora Jane. They couldn’t stop the labor and Nora made an early entrance into the world.
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May 24, 2024 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Daniel Schlozman |Melinda Cooper |Jake Rosenfeld |Kate Aronoff
Elder Statesmen The two old men worried to their very cores about Trump came to opposite decisions: Mitt Romney quit, and Joe Biden is running again. Both may have chosen wrong. ▪ Spring 2024 Romney: A Reckoningby McKay CoppinsScribner, 2023, 416 pp. The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Futureby Franklin FoerPenguin Press, 2023, 432 pp. At Easter time in 2022, Craig Romney took his family to Washington, D.C., to see the sights.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
crosswalk.com | Melinda Cooper
Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
Published
Sep 26, 2022
The word toxic sounds badand it is. Toxic waste, toxic shock, toxic hazardous materials, toxic debts, are just a few of the things that come to mind with the mention of the word. It basically means poisonous or very harmful. Masculinity sounds good because it is good. Strong men are important in many ways. The strength doesn’t necessarily need to be physical, though.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
wfil.com | Melinda Cooper
It can be hard to explain to seekers why churches ask for money. It can also be unsettling to attend a new church and the first sermon you hear is about tithing. You can’t help but think, they’re only after money. The first time I was informed I should give money to my church, I was taken aback. Money? Why do I need to give my money to the church? I was a teenager, spiritually immature, and spent my small paychecks on fuel for my car and fast food. But we all need money, and churches are no exception.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
ibelieve.com | Melinda Cooper
Recently, a conversation took place at dinner about the children of Israel and how they ended up in Egypt as slaves. As I shared the story of Joseph and his brothers and how they initially found themselves in Egypt, one of my sons had his phone out and Googled something I said to find out if I was right. It had been a while since I’d recalled those particular Biblical highlights, so it caused me to question myself. But when Google proved it true, then my recollection was good as gold.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
faithtalk970.com | Melinda Cooper
Recently, a conversation took place at dinner about the children of Israel and how they ended up in Egypt as slaves. As I shared the story of Joseph and his brothers and how they initially found themselves in Egypt, one of my sons had his phone out and Googled something I said to find out if I was right. It had been a while since I’d recalled those particular Biblical highlights, so it caused me to question myself. But when Google proved it true, then my recollection was good as gold.
