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I Don’t Want You to Read This Blog Post (a lesson in backfire)
The world is ablaze with righteous indignation. Arrows fly and I’ve grown weary of dodging them. Haven’t you? Weary of headlines. Weary of blog posts, Facebook updates, tweets, and op eds. Weary of debates in the lunchroom and at the dinner table, over coffee after church. We volley the blame ball from one hand to …[ read more ]
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Samwise Gamgee Can Get Us Through These Days
I terrified myself this week. Truly experienced long moments of icy panic. It had been a full day of meeting with families for my day job. After leaving one family’s home, I mentally mapped my route back to my office to pick up some gift cards and then to my next appointment on the other …[ read more ]
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White Feather Fretting on a Week Day
We think we can be prepare for everything. We can. Just, not the way we think. Soldiers in boot camp ask veterans to tell them what it’s like to be at war. They never get enough of battle stories but old soldiers give their stories up sparingly. In boot camp, we think knowing what’s ahead …[ read more ]
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Chicken Little Christians
Now is the time for Christians to be Christ-like. When a storm assaulted His boat full of the men on whom He planned to build the church Jesus didn’t freak out or wonder if they should have taken the boat out or whine about the rain. He took a nap. Knowing Jesus, I know this …[ read more ]
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The Only Way Forward from 9/11
Know this. What defines us as people – as nations is not the tragedies that befall us but our response to those tragedies. That day remains with us like a missing limb, like a hip that predicts the rain, like a permanent limp; not because it happened – not because an enemy penetrated our border, …[ read more ]