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Daringly Honest Thoughts About God, Life and People

My Young-Earth Creationist Beat Up Your Old-Earth Evolutionist (Things Some Christians Like to Say)
Yesterday after school my young daughter burst into the kitchen and announced, with all the alarm of a good little evangelical, “Mom! My...
Oct 28, 20144 min read


Dining at “McChurch”–Where We Went Wrong When We Started Church Hopping
I recently listed on paper the names of the twelve churches I have regularly attended during my life of forty-something years. That...
Oct 10, 20142 min read


The Proper Way to “Have a Good Cry”
Last night I went to our church’s midweek meeting where I teach the kids while the adults hold a Bible study. I love this opportunity to...
Sep 11, 20142 min read

So You Had a Bad Dad
I can imagine some who read my annual Father’s Day posts on social media may feel slighted in the Daddy-hood department. Of course you...
Jun 15, 20142 min read


Give Yourself a Proper Burial (Thoughts on Self-Loathing)
(This post was first published at my old website years ago.) Recently my youngest daughter attempted to germinate a dry bean from the...
Apr 18, 20142 min read


Four Things You Are Not, and One Thing You Are (How to Define Yourself)
It’s a Saturday afternoon and I’m standing before an overcrowded room of sleepy moms at nap time. Before I launch into my speech outline,...
Mar 25, 20142 min read
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