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March 2014

March 21, 2014

Fred Phelps: Life of Fear

I'm not proud of it but there have been people I have hated in my...

March 17, 2014

Making Jesus Famous

There is a new phraseology making the rounds in Evangelical circles. I've heard it said...

March 12, 2014

Libraries and Bookstores

  Truck drivers have their greasy diners. Artists have their pristine galleries. Meth addicts have...

March 11, 2014

The Devil Walks in Mattingly

    Publication day can be one of the loneliest of all days, says Dani...

March 09, 2014

Doing Nothing for the Least of Us

Not a one of them called Children Services. People walked over top the young woman,...

March 09, 2014

Not God’s Tools

  I had stayed too long, visiting. Not an uncommon occurrence for me. He  -...

March 06, 2014

Woken by the SWAT alarm

  Typically, this time of year, I wake to the sound of mourning doves cooing...

March 04, 2014

Praying for Mardi Gras

    The first rule of thumb is to get your facts straight first. You...

March 03, 2014

Sherlock’s Theology

  I was in Leavenworth, Washington over the weekend. I went at the invitation of...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

This Dark Road to Tent Revivals & New Orleans

  I met a fella named Memphis Storm this week. That's his first and middle...

February 24, 2014

I Married a Feminist

  When I think of the most patriarchal of all organizations, it is not the...

February 23, 2014

Prayers for the Missionary

  Perhaps you read Will Jesus Buy Me a Double-Wide? and remember the story of  The...

February 18, 2014

Serendipity: God’s calling card

    Decades ago, back when I was a newbie wanna-be, not yet calling myself...

February 15, 2014

Purple Heart Recipient Jed Zillmer: American Tragedy

  His life ended in a one-sided shoot-out. Police said he wanted it that way....

February 11, 2014

Everlasting Romance

  I am a Valentine baby. More than likely an anniversary Valentine baby.  My parents...

February 07, 2014

I dream of dead people

      I dream of dead people. They speak to me. My daughter said...

February 02, 2014

When Grace Breaks Us

  Grace is terrifying. It is the cast aside bloodied bandages of grave clothes. It...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

My Disc Jockey Days

  Here's a little known fact: I worked in radio long before I became a...

January 27, 2014

Obamacare: The Pro-Choice Hypocrisy

The pro-abortion and right-to-choose segment of our society has all but co-opted the term “Women’s...

January 26, 2014

Evangelical Hocus-Pocus

  I was slain in the spirit once. Splayed out. Laid flat. Old-fashioned revival time...

January 23, 2014

Cold Tip Survival Guide

  There are reasons why people choose to live in the South. Sunshine and warmth being...

January 17, 2014

MLK & Sudan’s Human Rights Disaster

    "Our Father who art in Heaven," I prayed, even as a little boy...

January 15, 2014

Lone Survivor: A Gold Star Daughter Interviews a Gold Star Mom

  Gunner's Mate 2nd Class Danny Dietz Jr. was one of the nineteen men killed...

January 13, 2014

Lone Survivor: Thoughts from a Gold Star Daughter

Do you know what the right thing is? No disrespect but you don't have any...

January 12, 2014

A case against MaryJane

Willie Nelson before long-term marijuana use Willie Nelson: After long-term marijuana use. Word to the...

January 10, 2014

Lessons of Bobby Sands

Before there was the produce farmer who set himself on fire in Tunisia  Before there...

January 08, 2014

President Johnson’s Moron Corps

  All this talk of President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty has got me...

January 05, 2014

First Hopes

I love the start of a race, the opening chapter of a book, the first...

January 02, 2014

Mothers & Mental Illness

My childhood girlfriend was institutionalized following the birth of her first-born. Here she was, ten...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

Resolutions of a Misremembered Life

  She bought the buffet from a man who lived in that same prison town...

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