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Why I Half Believe In God

It’s one thing to gaze sanctimoniously over a church hymnal and speak about the reality of God, but its entirely another thing to look at pictures of flat bed trucks piled high with the mud caked, silent, naked bodies of children, and ask the question.

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Field Of Swords

Dabbling in poetry with the hopes to explore truth via poetry and song writing...

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Haiti Had It Coming Pat Robertson?

When I watched the clip below, I felt like I had to comment. Then after reading Donald Miller’s response to Pat Robertson, I calmed down a bit, not to say I was jumping around with flailing arms or anything…but you get the point.  Both Pat Robertson and I have our own problems.  So I’ll [...]

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Dancing with an idea

I’ve often struggled with the idea of a personal Jesus. the kind that “you accept into your heart.”  You know the kind that raspy alternative Christian musicians sing about on the radio.  Almost romantic like.  I don’t know.  So in my efforts not to throw the baby-out-with-the-bath-water, or the confusing, and unpalatable rhetoric of Christian [...]

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Drops Like Stars: Thoughts on Creativity and Suffering

First Rob Bell wrote Velvet Elvis, Sex God, and Jesus Wants to Save Christians. I’d read two out of these three books, and watched a few of his short videos online.  All in all, I’m a fan.  He challenges Christians to reevaluate living by a check list religion, and communicates some pretty provocative ideas, while [...]

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A Life and Death Issue

I shuffled down the isle towards the front of the church, my view still blocked by the short disheveled line that had bottle-necked and huddled around the opened silver casket. Suddenly the group parted, and the sight seized my chest.  The cold, hard, truth, lay bare before my eyes.  Laying as if sleeping, but not to [...]

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Make Your Mondays Feel Like Fridays

Lifestyle Design for a lot of people sounds unrealistic. But it doesn’t have to be. Maybe there is a way to change things around to better reflect the life we want to live. Even prior to reading Tim Ferris’s Four Hour Work Week years ago, I felt that something was wrong.  Something was wrong with [...]

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Who Will Cry At Your Funeral?

funeral, worrying, dreams, goals

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