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Testing...
Despite how much evidence is repeated, people cling to the illusions which comfort them.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/02/26/3624447/tanf-drug-testing-states/
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Creativity
I was just listening to Wil Wheaton' excellent "Radio Free Burrito", episode 40, and realized that being a creative person, I need to start exploring and elaborating the creative boundaries of my life.
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Anthropology
Gordon Dickson has this great book called "None But Man", where there's this alien race that lays claim to a system of colony worlds. When Earth tells them that they can have them, the race declares war ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts on Loving Others
So, as our base comparison, Jesus met all sorts of people who were not part of accepted religious society...prostitutes, the repeatedly divorced, tax collectors, etc. who society really, really looked down on, in ways we can't really compare to ( Read more... ) -
so, I was thinking...
I can be in the midst of a fierce argument with somebody, and we're both upset, and I will think about a movie I've just seen ( Read more... ) -
Further Thoughts on Discipleship
My thought is that we struggle with discipleship so much precisely because we have most everything backwards ( Read more... ) -
Analogous
I wonder if Anorexia is like this. You're hungry all of the time, but you struggle with thinking that being hungry is bad, that food only leads to bad things, to self destruction, so you have to do everything you can to avoid hunger, to avoid food, to avoid feeling healthy. So everything attached to it...comfort, being full, social engagement ( Read more... ) -
On Needs
There's a definite sense within the North American Protestant Church, and perhaps broader, that consumerism has really taken a firm grip on the church ( Read more... ) -
The Catch-22 of love
I realized tonight, among other things, that I still don't really believe that I deserve love, or that I'm worthy of being loved ( Read more... ) -
An exercise in frustration
Speaker:...and all you have to do is truly believe in God, and fully surrender your life to him ( Read more... )