John 3:8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit. We went to John Luke’s Celebration of Life service today. The service was filled with splendid stories. Some of us take reading […]

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Next week Meg and I will celebrate twelve years of marriage. A dozen. Thinking about this made me question the origin of the word “dozen”  – for that matter, why are there a dozen eggs in a carton? Why isn’t everything based on ten. After all, that is when our numeric system moves toward double […]

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Jesus said to them, “My wife…” – Gospel of Jesus’s Wife Discovered a few years ago, The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife is not a complete book, but a small fragment. It contains only a few lines. The media’s focal point is the line when Jesus mentions “my wife”. Which serve’s the goal of creating hype – a […]

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“Atheists may be as rare in America as Jesus-loving politicians are in Europe, but here faith is almost entirely devoid of content. One of the most religious countries on earth is also a nation of religious illiterates.” – Stephen Prothero (click to read the article). Megan was with me when I went to buy a shovel. […]

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Today is Earth Day. There is a part of me pulling for a little global warming. Nothing drastic. But as someone who freezes in the winter and rarely minds the summer, a few degrees increase would be nice. Unfortunately global warming is not just about temperature increasing, but increasing weather patterns. More extreme drought, worse storms. […]

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