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September 2015

September 23, 2015

Pope Comes to America, HuffPo Prepares for Disappointment

I've been trying to work up some excitement for the visit of the Pope this...

September 21, 2015

Oh the Humanity: Trump and his Trouble with Women

It's hard for me to think clearly with the gray morning sky pressing in and...

September 18, 2015

Is Trump Human

I didn't watch the debate but I was forced to endure a couple of clips after,...

September 16, 2015

Lament at the Slaughter of the Innocent

I guess a new planned parenthood video came out yesterday, to little or no outcry....

September 15, 2015

Wisdom Cries Aloud

Need to get onto a new bible reading schedule. Since the glorious advent of the...

September 10, 2015

I’m An American But I’m Not

That Buzzfeed I am a Christian But I'm Not video keeps circling back through my...

September 09, 2015

I Can’t Do It All: My Self-Identity as a Whiner

Too much of my mental space is always being taken up trying to connect one...

September 08, 2015

Do Pop By: the Boundaries of a Sane Life

After my tantrum of yesterday about how tired I am of the news and the...

September 07, 2015

News Exhaustion

Color me exhausted by the unrelenting news cycle. I had super important work to do...

September 04, 2015

Tater Tot Christianity

Update: Upon reflection, it occurred to me that critiquing the most beloved Christian blogger of...

September 03, 2015

Gold’s Gym, Sheol and Tullian: Why I’m Trying to be Grateful

The great tragedy of Tullian and his wife broke open this summer when we happened...

September 01, 2015

Trump Nation and the Three Amigos

Family movie night, which has lately and unfortunately been occurring more than once a week,...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

When You Stumble and Fall

Part of the Anglican order of service, oh whatever, we don't say that, we say...

August 27, 2015

From Whence is Jesus Calling?

So yesterday I noticed, and how could I not, that the Jesus in Sarah Young'...

August 26, 2015

Satisfaction Guaranteed: Maybe Jesus is Calling

Today I might walk perilously up close to the line of offending everybody. And me...

August 25, 2015

Tater Tot Casserole

Of course we're all really interested and appalled about the Dugger Downfall on Ashley Madison,...

August 24, 2015

So Much Flesh, So Little Time

Spent the weekend thinking about the consequences of bad theology. Theology matters and there...

August 21, 2015

I Might as Well be Grateful

I'm about to cross over the line from thirty-eight to thirty-nine. I managed to go...

August 20, 2015

At Least There’s Still the Cross

Depending on who you are, yesterday could have been like Christmas for the Internet. I...

August 19, 2015

The Preach Moment

I know, I know, you're all frothing to hear how my first day of school...

August 14, 2015

#alllivesmatter

I know I said I was going to write about my school plans for this...

August 12, 2015

The Best Kind of Love

This morning, along with the tea, Matt sent a little something to roil me out...

August 07, 2015

7 not very quick takes

One Elphine is super mad because she didn't wake up at six in the morning....

August 05, 2015

Felt Board Christianity

As the exposing of baby killing has unfolded over the last few weeks I'm surprised...

August 04, 2015

The Soul of the City

So, we saw the Binghamton movie! An actual movie, sitting in our own living room,...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

Reasonable Expectations

It's pretty ridiculous that I am writing a devotional book, given my fairly deep hatred...

July 22, 2015

The Wrath of the Win

I have a mildly ironclad rule for myself of never talking about politics here, if...

July 16, 2015

Books, Sin, and the Mountain I Can’t Climb

We had a really good time away. We payed our usual homage to the Alamo....

June 2015

June 18, 2015

The Tiny House Thing

I had the pleasure of lying around most of the afternoon, yesterday, watching exactly the...

June 15, 2015

The Preach Moment

Gladys and I missed church yesterday. I know this does happen periodically to the vast...