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Jetman, and Questions of Teleology
We all have our ways of doing it. Time needs to be passed, and so we pass it. I don’t know that it’s procrastination. For me, it’s always been about distraction more than entertainment. I’ve never...
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Back Burner Fail
Because I’m horribly absent-minded, I often put things on the wrong burner. This usually results in either a cloud of smoke, or a watched pot that literally never boils. This wouldn’t be so bad if I...
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Isolation Survival Guide
This is Mark. mark is in China. As we move from one place to another for a new school or job, we leave things behind. Time keeps moving forward and we must travel light. We often look at the bright...
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Present Tense Forgiveness
Our Christian vocabulary is robust, full of words like justification, propitiation, and sanctification, words that have libraries devoted to their study. Smaller, but no less powerful words a...
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Me, Going to Church? Since When?
For the first time in my life, I’m turning in a membership application to an actual brick-and-mortar church. To some that’s pretty boring news, but it might be a surprise to those who know me well, and...
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Life Is Not Boring.
Once, an old man tried to convince me to write news reports for a living. Even though he knew I wanted to write creatively. He said that Hemingway was a reporter before he was a novelist. I told him I...
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Uncensored Prayer #1
I want publish more things that sort of document how people are wrestling with God. For one thing, it lets people who wrestle with God (most of us) know that they aren’t crazy. Or if they are crazy, at...
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Uncensored Prayer #2
Hi God, So, wow. It’s been a really long time since I last talked to you. (Like a real conversation, not just spontaneous Oh God thank you so much for this gorgeous baby.) I’m pretty sure that if...
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A Letter To My Father
Hey, Daddy, it’s your little girl. The one who rejected the religion she was raised with. The one who became Catholic. Do you think I’m going to hell? I know you think I’m a lost cause somehow. And...
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Uncensored Prayer #3
Hey God, I’ve stared at this for several minutes trying to figure out what to say to You. How can I have nothing to say? How long has it been since we really talked? Longer than me just venting in the...
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