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Horrifying story: The World Health Organization estimates that 4.8 million people a year with moderate to severe cancer pain receive no appropriate treatment. Nor do another 1.4 million with late-stage AIDS. For other causes of lingering pain — burns, car accidents, gunshots, diabetic nerve damage, sickle-cell disease and so on — it issues no estimates…

Some months ago, when Ms. Spears was crashing, I wrote a bit about her as a prodigal daughter – about the prayer that she was, perhaps, turning away from the destructive and to the beautiful. Last night she “returned” to the MTV Music Awards in Las Vegas. It went… poorly. Here is a link if…

Great points in comments and via email (before my email went poof) about my hypocrisy exhaustion. I’m going to focus on two for now: Zirk wonders: …don’t you think we should make a distinction between someone who is honestly striving for holiness and falls versus someone who is just fake? Someone who struggles with sin…

Was talking to my newly-minted junior high school daughter last night about life and school and changes and such. Out of nowhere came this: “I love middle school. I haven’t been asked to walk single file once. What a wasted skill to learn that was!” It was said with confidence and certainty and disdain and…

Remember all of those great pictures that you’ve sent me for “thin places”? And all those emails you’ve sent voicing opinions on this and that? Well, they are, as my two-year-old likes to say, “Alllll GONE!” I’m not quite sure how it happened but it has happened. It has something to do with a syncing…

Something good: More than 1,000 children will be spending a fun-filled, God-centered day with their imprisoned fathers in one of the nation’s most notorious jails on Saturday. The grounds of Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola has been transformed into a carnival where some 1,100 kids will enjoy crafts, games and a meal with their fathers.…

When did hypocrisy become the greatest of all vices? I obviously overstate but to look at the news is to see joyous revelry at revelations of hypocrisy – Larry Craig, Al Gore’s flying around in private jets, John Edwards driving an SUV and on and on. True, Jesus wasn’t into hypocrites – particularly religious ones.…

Author and former Time journalist David Aikman writes in Christianity Today about the increasingly “attack dog” mentality of some Christians: What disturbs me… is the extent to which some Christians have turned themselves into the self-appointed attack dogs of Christendom. They seem determined to savage not only opponents of Christianity, but also fellow believers of…

Did Adam have a belly button? He wasn’t “born”…so? [Note – send me your random questions at dkuoblog@mac.com and i’ll post the best of the best random questions on Friday afternoons]

Who cares? Wires and blogs and commentators are atwitter at what the AP called President Bush’s, “terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day at the Sydney Opera House. The problem? Verbal gaffes – saying OPEC instead of APEC and Austria instead of Australia. Oh, and going out the wrong door. Yeah, that all stinks. But…
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