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Serenity Thwarted

We are prisoners in a broken culture.

The Winter of My Discontent

VACTERL occasionally gives you a little break. Though you may have an onerous lists of tasks required to keep your child happy and healthy, you get into an offbeat rhythm that mimics normal life. You find a place of serenity and you think that you have beaten back the deadly predators. But really you are […]

Legacy Code

I had my Imagine meeting this morning. It was our second to the last meeting. Not sure what comes next, but I’m open to possibilities. We are reading the book Naked Spirituality by Brian McLaren. I had procrastinated all week and as of noon yesterday, I had not read the second half of the book […]

Imagine, part 7

Thud! I start this posting with a quote from Pink Floyd’s The Wall. It is written from the perspective of a husband to his wife. But I use it here to describe the next phase of my faith journey. Day after day, love turns grey Like the skin of a dying man. Night after night, […]

Imagine, part 6

Crash! I preface this post with a couple of thoughts. It is impossible for me to put into words how much I love my son. He inspires me daily. Let me be clear I do not in any way, shape or form blame him for what happened to me. What follows is purely the result […]

Warped Perspective

I have a twisted relationship with the news media. I hate it. Absolutely hate it. Yet I cannot ignore it. If I go a couple of days without seeing the news, I get antsy. Watching the news is a cancer on my soul. Every night it is a concentrated dose of the worst evil that […]

I Can Do All Things (Phil four thirteen)

Go to church long enough and the same topics and scriptures are repeated. If they use the lectionary it is roughly every three years or so. At most churches it is somewhere between 3 and 5 years…except around Christmas and Easter, they are repeated annually. Rarely do you hear a good sermon about Jael driving […]

Mixed Bag

This is going to be one of those postings where I just start writing until something clicks. It may just be random mush. I just found out that one of my professors is college died suddenly. He had heart surgery on Friday to remove a benign tumor. I am not sure what happened, but apparently […]

Noodle Salad

I want noodle salad. Watch the clip and you will understand. At my old church, I attended a Men’s retreat. We were in small groups and the leader asked everyone to share the greatest moment of their lives. Without exception, all of them said, the birth of their child. That my […]

Would you buy a used car from this man?

I have always been a square peg in the round hole of faith. If I lived 1000 years ago I would be burned at the stake. That is OK, I like barbeque. Yesterday I got an email from a customer who works at a Christian University in Lakeland Florida (yes, that one). […]