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My New Love Looks and Acts Just Like My Ex!

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I love my blog. We’ve been through a lot together. Confusing license plates. Baby future astronauts from the past. Appliance porn. Me on drugs. Good times all. But, alas, those times have ended. Why? Because I broke up with my blog, man. It wasn’t the blog. It was me.

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Has a Cockroach Skittered Into This, My Online Home?

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Hey, quick note. Sometimes I get too busy to monitor with proper asssiduousness the myriad comment threads simultaneously happening here on my blog. In some very real ways I count on my readers/commentators to keep things here reasonable, and at least reasonably polite. I’ve seen what happens when people show up here who are, shall [...]

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Send Me Your Blog Address for My Blogroll!

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[Update: I'll leave this post up through today--being July 20, doncha know--and then be sure to get these blogs onto my blogroll ASAP. Probably take me ... I dunno. Day, maybe. Whatever. But I'll get 'em done. Cuz you know how I do.] The other day I finally got around to explaining why I don’t [...]

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How I Got a Blog on Huffington Post (And Help Me Mooch Indian Food!)

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Last night Cat and I had drinks and dinner with a new friend (DR!) at this place, if you can stand the ridiculous beauty of it. (Our Actual Table was the one to the right of the standing waiter with the blue shirt, where the four guys in sunglasses are playing Quick: Tell Us Apart.) [...]

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What Am I Going to Do with You People?

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I’m so confused. Today I was doing a fairly massive amount of writing about tithing. In the course of that work I wrote, If, as we have seen above, Paul makes a strong case for believers giving to the church, Jesus Christ makes an even stronger case for believers giving to the poor.

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Rock-Munching Gull + Rocky the Plummeting Squirrel = ?

This isn't me.

I’m sitting on the beach right now on my little fold-out, nylon-strapped chair, writing on my laptop. I’m feeling very Gilligan Goes Thoughtful. Very California Dreamin’.

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Posts by Theme

Christian Issues

The Best Case For the Bible NOT Condemning Homosexuality

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No Christian has to choose between their compassion and their faith in the Bible.

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Relationships

Joseph to Mary: “Who could believe such a thing?”

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A conversation between Mary and Joseph the night before Jesus was born.

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Christian Spirituality

What Jesus Left Out of The Great Commandment

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Here’s what Jesus left out of the Great Commandment—and why.

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Humor

Worst Trucking Slogan EVER

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Truck drivers are so weird.

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Pastor Bob's Corner

A Primer on Islam: The Basics (Lesson 1 of 6)

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Hi. I’m Pastor Bob. This is the first lesson of a multi-week class on Islam I taught for a large gathering of folks from multiple congregations: Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Catholics, recovering agnostics, etc.

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Personal

When Etta James had her way with me

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Right there, in front of all sixteen of us, Etta James became Etta James.

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