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May 2009

May 20, 2009

What Gets Me In Trouble

If people visit our community because they think it's cool, they are going to be...

May 19, 2009

Mental Stealth

Lisa and I had a long sit-down talk the other night. Remember a few days...

May 15, 2009

Be New Wine!

Someone once said that old wine skins can't handle new wine. They'll burst. It is...

May 15, 2009

cartoon: BAN nudity!

This is a cartoon playing around with Frederik Goodall (British, 1822-1904), The Finding of Moses:...

May 14, 2009

Defiance

I appreciated the film Defiance because it reminded me of our community. Not that we...

May 13, 2009

One Flew Over the Church’s Nest

I have visited insane people before. I have visited insane members of my church who...

May 11, 2009

Z-Theory #1: Dreams and Waterfalls

I had a dream: There is a huge waterfall. I am looking up at the...

May 07, 2009

Creation, Evolution & Personal Transformation

I have homegroup every Wednesday night. Lately I've had to drag myself there. Last night...

May 06, 2009

Grace in Absence of Forms

We are so often concerned with form. It is easy to worry about the appearance...

May 05, 2009

10 Survival Tips

I think all religious communities, like our earth, are on a collision course with their...

May 04, 2009

Happy Anniversary!

Lisa and I, the babe in the pic, have been married 29 years today. No...

May 02, 2009

cartoon: illustration Friday… “Heirarchy”

I had a dream a few years ago where I saw this picture. Strong and...

May 01, 2009

Teaching as Direction

This morning's cartoon was motivated by something I'm challenged by. One of the most important...

April 2009

April 30, 2009

Visitors and Dating

Have you heard the joke about the man who came to church for the first...

April 24, 2009

The Torture Memos and International Accountability

If I injure someone but forgive myself in order to move on, that does not...

April 22, 2009

A Challenge for Public Speakers

The cartoon from earlier today was inspired by something I read years ago that I've...

April 21, 2009

Physicists and Dark Matter

I read somewhere recently that physicists believe that 60% of the universe is made up...

April 20, 2009

Flying Overweight

I wasn't shocked, but I was a little bewildered by the news this morning that...

April 17, 2009

cartoon: road sign YIELD!

Did you know that the shape of the yield sign, the upside down triangle, is...

April 16, 2009

Free Communities Now!

Everyone has the right to believe what he or she wants to believe. In fact,...

April 09, 2009

Heated Hot-Tub Discussion with Gays!

I have to share a story of something that happened to me about 10 years...

April 03, 2009

I Won Illustration Friday!

I never expected this, but I won last week's competition on Illustration Friday for the...

April 01, 2009

sorry…

Hey everyone who reads my blog by feed: I uploaded the wrong image for my...

March 2009

March 31, 2009

Systems and Power

I just finished reading Garrow's massive biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., Bearing the Cross....

March 30, 2009

Community: Blame or Introspection

I know many people who have been rejected by the Community. They aren't a part...

March 30, 2009

cartoon: caution falling people

March 27, 2009

Listen to the Podcast!

I was interviewed live on stevebrownetc.com on live radio today at 12 ET. You can...

March 27, 2009

cartoon: reaching out to the wealthy

This is not an attack on the wealthy, but a more subtle and illustrative way...

March 26, 2009

Brain Health

I'm a member of the Good Life gym. After my daughter Casile gets on her...

March 25, 2009

Report!

Our community had a meeting Sunday night. It was to group together and discern who...