Imagine, part 4

You may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?” –Talking Heads So this is the last assignment for my Imagine group. Describe your faith journey as an adult, age 27+. I will break this post into at least two segments. Well the thing that had the biggest impact on my faith at age 27 […]

Imagine, part 2

On three: One, Three, Two… I know, I know, I already published part 3. I winged part 2 at the meeting, but I want a complete set so here goes Paradise Lost So purely from a faith standpoint, I had a pretty great early childhood. But unfortunately as I got older, the adults around me […]

Imagine, part 3

Four Years in the Desert Young adulthood kicked off with the end of college. By some miracle, I graduated from Bethany on time with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. I wanted to go to grad school to become a therapist, but my student loan dept (modest by today’s standards) freaked me out. I needed a […]

Turn or Burn

My world has been rocked this week. I found out about a scandal at my workplace. It is really bothering me. If the allegations are true, this individual did some pretty “Immoral” stuff. This is my question: Do we have to have a God to behave morally? It seems to me that morality and spirituality […]

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 […]

More than meets the eye

I love driving from the Eisenhower tunnel, down through the Rocky Mountains and into Denver (my home town). As you go barreling down I-70, you round one mountain, just to see another, and another and another. And just when you think that you are forever trapped in this rocky landscape, you round a curve and […]

Snug as a Bug

I woke up at 3am this morning. I am not complaining. At the time I thought it was 5, right before I get up. But no, I had two more glorious hours to sleep. It was raining outside and I was in a warm bed. Joy. One of my fellow friends and fellow bloggers pointed […]

Tooth-tify

Yesterday was a friend’s going away party at work. We had lunch at Uncle Julio’s, a local Mexican restaurant. I was munching away on a basket of chips when I thought I bit on a course piece of cornmeal. It wasn’t cornmeal. It was my tooth. Crushed that sucker to bits. All that remains […]

Git Off My Lawn

Yes, I am becoming that guy, the old man shaking his cane at the neighborhood kids for playing in his yard. It hit me yesterday when I reread my own posting. There is a core of white hot anger at my core that has to do with the way that organized religion #$@#%!! (made sweet […]

Gimme that Ole Time Religion?

There is an old song called “Give Me That Old Time Religion.” It goes as follows: Give me that old-time religion, Give me that old-time religion, Give me that old-time religion, It’s good enough for me. Here is my question: To which religion does the writer refer? The religion where humanity was cursed for wanting […]