unexpected pleasures
No life is entirely planned. Some of us are well-displined and well-organized, living structured and carefully measured lives. Others of us are impulsive or indecisive, living rather chaotic lives. But...
View Articlejust enough
Is it sinful to spend money on yourself? I don’t think so … Is it sinful to spend money only on yourself? Yes, I do think so … Is it sinful to want more than you have? I don’t think so … Is it sinful...
View Articlepoint of no return?
I remember pulling hard and fast on the paddle, propelling my whitewater canoe forward with the accelerating current toward the brink of Wonder Falls, an eighteen-foot falls on the Big Sandy River. I...
View Articleno matter who you are …
No matter who you are, or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here. The folks at my church have heard me repeat this tag line from the United Church of Christ national media campaign...
View Articlemuch ado about nothing
Much has been made of the missteps of the prosecution team in the trail of Zacarias Moussaoui, a confessed al-Qaeda operative. Because one of the prosecution lawyers illegally coached several...
View Articlethe healing power of forgiveness
Marie Roberts is the widow of the man who entered the Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, thirteen days ago, taking ten young girls hostage and eventually killing five before taking his own...
View Articlenot crusaders for jesus, but followers of jesus
From an editorial by John Buchanan in the February 6, 2007 edition of The Christian Century … I was representing my denomination on a visit to Croatia, not long after the shooting between Croats,...
View Articlehateful?
From a Christian blog I read: General Peter Pace’s comments calling homosexuals acts as immoral, and Senator Sam Brownback’s comments backing the General up are nothing less than hateful … Grace is...
View Articlethirty-three prayer flags
Yesterday, as classes resumed at Virginia Tech, students gathered around a display of thirty-three white prayer flags. Thirty-three flags … one each for the thirty-three people who died the previous...
View Articlethe furious longing of god
I was recently invited to join the members of the TheOOZE Viral Blogger Network. You can learn more about the Ooze online community by following the link listed in my blog’s Links list. Each month,...
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