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May 2014

May 08, 2014

About that Supreme Court Ruling on Ceremonial Prayers

When The Redhead called to tell me that her cancer was back and had...

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...

January 2014

January 26, 2014

Evangelical Hocus-Pocus

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

December 2013

December 31, 2013

Resolutions of a Misremembered Life

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

December 19, 2013

A World without God

We hear it all the time. How we've moved into a post-Christian era. A time...

September 2013

September 14, 2013

The Jesus Haint

She crooked her finger at me, right there in the middle of the Art Circle...

September 14, 2013

Pedicures and Pumpkin Lattes

Did you know, that at $4.75, seven Pumpkin Spice Lattes cost you about $35. Maybe...

September 13, 2013

Beyond Poverty & First World Problems is Beauty

“I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be...

September 11, 2013

Remembering 9-11 with Miss Lillian

Lillian revisiting her memories of Marjorie I stopped by to see my friend Lillian...

September 09, 2013

Building New Communities

It's Miz Shelby here again. Today's the day I head out on the adventure with...

August 2013

August 29, 2013

The Trinity of Unemployment, Addiction & Depression

Editor's Note: When I wrote about the Biscuit Outlaw and shared that post,...

August 22, 2013

The Believer’s Serenity Prayer

God grant me this thing I ask Help me to change the things...

August 22, 2013

Ditching the Me Mentality

It's Miz Shelby here. Mama talks about me every now and again. But you all might not...

August 20, 2013

They Walk Among Us

They walk among us, the despairing do. Some are quiet, unassuming, gentle souls. Others are...

August 08, 2013

The Civil Wars Unhinged

I hate it when a cherished friend up and quits me. Thankfully it hasn't happened...

July 2013

July 02, 2013

Praying for Prescott

My daughter spent a couple of summers on a firefighting crew. I'll be honest,...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

When God pulls out his fork

He told me that his kids confessed to smoking all his weed, this cabbie did....

May 22, 2013

In the Hood with Billy Coffey

A lot of people talk about the art of writing. Some of the people who...

March 2013

March 22, 2013

On Juxtapositions

Barry Hannah used to say it was the glaring juxtapositions of the South that...

February 2013

February 01, 2013

God’s Super Bowl Team

With the Big Game just days away you probably have your checklist of things...

November 2012

November 17, 2012

Keeping the Swarm

They say it often, and it is true, there is no miracle like that of...

November 05, 2012

I Wonder Why

I wonder why it is that Believers are willing to speak out about this: ...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

Git it Over With, Pleeeasseee…

Students have come to expect it from me, and I will not disappoint. Yes,...

July 2012

July 24, 2012

After the killing

I am off to Baton Rouge. I won't return until Saturday. Pray for me, will...

July 23, 2012

Ministering from Weakness

Dependency is the issue in missions ... You Westerners, you know how to minister...

July 21, 2012

The Joker

His isolation. Their inability to distinguish reality from pretend. Those are two of the primary...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

Battle Fatigue of a Different Sort

We have not done the work of prayer. Diana Butler Bass The worst sin is prayerlessness....

June 23, 2012

Memories of The Redhead: Mama was a Dancing Woman

I have been praying for a redhead grandson. My daughter says that's a weird prayer....

May 2012

May 18, 2012

Time for the Church to step up

It never fails. Every time I speak before any group about A SILENCE OF...

April 2012

April 12, 2012

Homer Simpson’s Hometown meeting

The girl with the gentle smile came up behind me, quietly, like a...

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