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Looking for the God-created soul in life.
Putting a Face on God: The Most Important Face You’ll Ever See
In the Academy Award nominated movie “Nebraska” Woody Grant (Bruce Dern) is losing what little of himself is left via dementia, or via a life and a brain damaged by alcoholism. He receives a clearing house letter that convinces him he has won one million dollars. All...
105 Years Late: A Review of G.K. Chesterton’s “Orthodoxy”
Chesterton begins his brilliant book on how he came to believe Christianity is true with a humorous parable about an English man who sets out by yacht to discover a new world and, through a slight miscalculation, lands back in England, believing he has discovered “a...
Four Reasons Blogs With Numbers in the Titles Won’t Change Your Life
You may not realize it, but it’s likely Frank Gilbreth, Sr. impacted your life. Don’t recognize his name? In the early 1900s, as a bricklayer, Gilbreth developed a more efficient, simple way to lay bricks. Soon the ambitious, creative Gilbreth and his wife Lillian...
A Brief Excuse for Why I Disappeared from Blogging
You've heard it said, "Excuses are like armpits. Everyone has one and they all stink." Except in the Navy, where I first heard that wonderful cliché, we did not use the word armpit nor the word stink. Anyway, I know I dropped from the face of the blogging world....
What C. S. Lewis Might Say About the Trayvon Martin Coverage
Why has the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman ruling grabbed America by the throat and not let go? Because a young black man lost his life. Because a young hispanic man has had his nearly destroyed. Because the media need to manufacture crises to make money. Because it...
You Are Not–And Never Will Be–In Control. But It’s Okay!
Recently a good friend took his first job as a pastor. He asked several friends and pastors for advice on how to start this exciting and important calling. Below is my response. I think you might get something from it too. Dear Mark: I am honored and humbled that you...