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Mine Has a Red Door
A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of attending a benefit dinner for an organization near us that creates enterprises and community for adults with disability in a Christian context. It is a beautiful organization that currently hosts an independent living environment for adults with disability. As a parent of a child with Down…
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These Heights are here without us
Several times in my life I’ve been on a hike out in the high places in the world, and stopped to wonder at the beauty. There’s something heart-achingly beautiful about the rocky places that wedge against the sky. What compounds this beauty is the remoteness of it. Many of these places are seen by less…
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Climate Change
This morning as I was walking into the church, I heard a bird call that has become familiar to me. I believe that it’s a mockingbird, because it is the exact sound and cadence of a car alarm coming from a bird. These creatures, exposed to sounds alien to them yet become routine, blended their…
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Sky Surf
Often when I’m outside walking, I’m amazed at how the sky seems to mimic the ocean. It’s amazing to me how the clouds flit and flow just like I’ve seen the sea on a stormy day. Or watching the dull and calm constant waves pressing from side to side. It’s like watching two sisters, the…
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Straining the Deodorant
Recently, I found myself in a quandary. I hate going to the store, but was in need for multiple hygiene things. When my hair gets long, I tend to get the mad scientist look. In order to tame my insane hair, conditioner and hair product is necessary. But with my distaste for going to the…
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Drinking Songs, Marching Songs, and Worship
This morning I happened across the video of Hozier singing “The Humours of Whiskey,” found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ-UItNBoMw It’s a beautiful rendition of the song, a haunting recording. It started me thinking on a concept that has often rolled around in my head: why don’t people sing in worship services? If a man can jump on…
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Here Be Dragons…
On our last podcast, Jonathan and I spoke on the topic of calling. In specific one of the areas of focus is that if we’re faithful in the small and unappreciated areas of life, we can be counted faithful in the big and important areas of life. (There is a Hebrew word for this style…
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The Unlocked Prison
Wittgenstein said in the Logico Tractatus Philosophicus, “A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that is unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than to push.” How much of life is spent pushing on unlocked doors, raging at the God we perceive…
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Gladwell’s Magic Third and the Church
Currently I’m reading the book The Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. I love Gladwell’s consistent web of culture and philosophy to see the trends and ask the “why?” questions. It’s refreshing for me as a person who is rarely satisfied with the quick answer. One of his major points in the book…
And yet, and yet... 