Current Affairs
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the importance of Anne Rice’s quitting church
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The news that celebrated novelist Anne Rice is quitting Christianity is no doubt be taken lightly by most of the world. In the same way that I reject caring about the gossip of celebretries, it would be quite easy to dismiss this announcement. And there might even be a few people out there that are…
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Smart Ass
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By now you no doubt have seen the video of the Vice President of the United States calling the manager of a yogurt shop a smart ass. If you haven’t, click here. Don’t read the article yet, just watch the video. Imagine that you’re in Mr. Biden’s shoes for a minute. You are constantly assaulted…
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a brief note on the oil crisis
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I am feeling so much grief about the oil crisis–and I know I’m not the only one. My heart aches for the land… the people… the workers (from the rig and those cleaning up)… the entire ecosystem… the Creator and Life-Giver… and everyone directly and indirectly dependent on the Gulf of Mexico. And the question…
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Pick and choose protestors
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Just a quick thought for a Monday morning… Why is it that the millions that protested the Iraq Conflict peacefully for years were virtually ignored by the press and totally ignored by Washington while today’s ‘protesters’, hundreds of angry and abusive anti-tax protesters, are media darlings and have Congress cow-towing to them?
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simplicity
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Through Lent, St. Paul’s is holding a Lenten Program about Simplicity. The concept, as I see it, being this: We have complicated lives and live in a complex world, but it need not be so. This complexity separates us from one another and from God. To achieve balance in our lives, we must remove what…
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The Evangelical Brain
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Conversations about evangelicalism and intellectualism are decidedly lacking in both. This post is about living with a full brain.