Tag: spirituality
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Jesus and Chaos Theory
I used to spend my lunch breaks drinking coffee with a friend who was into all things conspiracy. I’ll never forget the time we saw a van parked across the street from us and he almost jumped out of his seat, “That Dodge Caravan has police lights!” I felt like his revelation was too perceptive […]
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Jovan Belcher and a Shared Story of Violence
In the wake of the events of this past weekend, I have spent this morning reflecting on the story of Jovan Belcher. On Saturday, the 25-year-old NFL player shot and killed his girlfriend (the mother of his infant daughter), then drove to the stadium to take his own life with his head coach and general […]
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The Goodness of Creation and the Love of God
And God saw that it was good. As I sit down to write, I can hear my housemate working in his workshop. I think he told me earlier that he was building a birdhouse. I wonder how he will feel about his work when he is done. And I wonder if I will feel like […]
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The First Love of God
It seems strange to wonder what a God who refers to himself as love would love. Then again, as I understand the faith, a little bit of wonder is a good thing. And so I wonder if it would be best to say first that he loves all that he has made, from the mountains […]
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Welcome, Thanks, and an Excellent Quote (from a guy named Helmut)
In recent days, there have been an unseasonable amount of new readers to my little blog. Welcome. Thanks for reading. As a way of saying thanks for reading, I thought I would give you a quote from a long-deceased, forgotten-by-history German theologian named Helmut Thielicke. Since the next couple of posts are going to be […]
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God, Science, Poets, Love and Hate
When I first met my wife, I decided I wanted to abandon myself to knowing everything about her. So first I learned who her favorite band was. And I was hooked. I wanted to know her dreams, what she wanted to be when she grew up. I wanted to find out what it was about […]
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What Waffles and Eggs have to do with Love and Hate.
I have been doing a lot of cooking lately and I must say that I am getting pretty good at it, aside from a few bumps in the road. Each morning I make a couple of eggs, maybe some toast, or a bit of French toast, when the time is right. And I love to […]
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The Hard Work of Surrender
This morning I was reading about Zedekiah, king of Israel, who was at the helm during the siege fall of Jerusalem. I always thought that he must have been an evil man. After all, if you are in charge during the most traumatic event in biblical history, nobody is going to mistake you for a […]
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Of Bullpens and Baptisms
I have to admit this past baseball season has sucked me in like no other since I was a kid. The constant state of flux and change I am in the midst of, I think, has something to do with it. I remember the words of James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams, when he […]
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Hurtling toward Home
How many times have you moved this year? I had not thought of that one so I had to take a second. At the beginning of last summer, I lived in the hallowed halls of the Mountain Lodge Apartments in Birmingham, Alabama. I had been there for over three years, which to this point, […]
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