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A Fear of Whales
A Fear of Whales
Faith: A Crisis of the Evidence of Things Hoped For
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rgaffney
I’ve been wrestling with the understanding of faith from a 1st century perspective for 2 years now, I haven’t gotten to any solid ground, but I promised you all some half baked theories, so I’d like to share where I am now. The study has taken me trough 3 ancient cultures and 4 languages I…
Sandwhiches
By
rgaffney
I go to a post-contemporary service at a Presbyterian church…. I realize that’s a little odd, but I'm going to have to suggest that you get used to it because it’s one of the less paradoxical aspects of my walk… Anyway one of the things we do as an expression of worship is make sandwiches…
Surfboards Cars And Unicycles
By
rgaffney
You guys still don’t know me out there, I want to do the normal blog thing for a post and talk about my day, That way you can get some perspective on the kind of person talking to you. I woke up this morning at 11am after sleeping through 3 alarms trying to wake me…
Lent
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rgaffney
So Ash Wednesday was this last Wednesday… that can only mean one thing! It’s Lent. Happy Lent Everyone!!! …Can I say that? …Sad lent?….Contemplative lent? I really don’t know. Either way it’s lent, and that’s what I’m going to talk about. For those of you who don’t know lent is the period of 40 days…
First Post
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rgaffney
Hello and welcome to the dreaded first blog! The first blog has got to be the hardest to write because it is the blog that everyone goes back to and reads “how did this get started” and all that. So it needs to epitomize what the rest of the chronicle is going to represent. At…
Note
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rgaffney
The first several posts of this blog were written years ago on a now defunct site called Faithvine.org In 2010 i took up writing again for a less explicitly evangelical audience. The posts have been copied here and backdated.
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