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  • Don’t Make Me Pull This World Over!

    Have you noticed how children often fear things that are not likely to hurt them and yet, have total disregard for actual dangers? Kids are afraid of the dark, alien invasions, sharks in the pool, getting sucked down the bathtub drain, and monsters under the bed. They will, however, run into traffic without a second …[ read more ]

  • Spending Time, Saving Lives, The Moldy Manna of Hoarded Days

    I read a card the other day that made me laugh. On the front it said “I tried living every day as though it was my last”.  Inside it said, “But people got tired of me running around screaming ‘I’m going to die! I’m going to die!’” I laughed because I can relate to feeling …[ read more ]

  • Some Truths Are No Longer “Self-Evident” – Issuing a Challenge to All American Christians

    In case you missed it, there’s been considerable Internet outrage surrounding the decision of a Wisconsin federal judge that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. There will be appeals and President Obama has not officially cancelled the National Day of Prayer which, since Truman, has been held on the first Thursday in May. (I’m …[ read more ]

  • The One-Armed, Fat Man and The End of the World

    So, my parents look like normal people as do their siblings but growing up, I quickly learned that if there was an odd character roaming around southern Rhode Island, we were probably related to them. I would describe specific oddities but then you would see their resemblance to me. Suffice it to say that usually …[ read more ]

  • Here’s Your Sign

    I don’t wear crosses. They bother me. I know I’m too literal about them but, to me, it’s like wearing tiny electric chairs or nooses as jewelry. The cross was an ugly instrument of humiliation, oppression, torture and death. Coating it with gold or painting a rose on it, for me, diminishes the truth and …[ read more ]