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Several months ago I posted a story about a man in Hawaii who was giving away houses and suggested he be nominated for an award for his kindness. I haven’t paid nearly enough attention to finding such stories. I came across this one, however. Carlos Slim, one of the world’s richest men, said Thursday he…

Four years ago, a little girl in Boston was shot, partially paralyzed, and sentenced to life in a wheelchair. Last year she entered a Boston courtroom and said to the man who shot her, “I forgive you.” It so moved him he changed his not-guilty plea to guilty and apologized. Watch the story here:Perhaps when…

The collapse makes no sense. It simply shouldn’t have happened. People driving home from work should not die because a bridge suddenly buckles. The engineers may well find an explanation, a technical explanation, for what occurred. That explanation will still not make much sense to our souls. I heard yesterday that a former colleague –…

In an interview earlier this year with Rolling Stone, famed author Tom Wolfe opined on the tragedy of religion’s fall from societal graces. A snippet of the audio interview can be found here. At the end of that audio clip he says this: “The bigger pornography gets the lower the birth rate becomes.” I don’t…

People of the world are too busy for God, so says a major new five-year study: In data collected from over 20,000 Christians with ages ranging from 15 to 88 across 139 countries, The Obstacles to Growth Survey found that on average, more than 4 in 10 Christians around the world say they “often” or…

This isn’t really the day of anonymous friends saying things. With this one I am just helping someone save face. I get an instant message, “a prayer request” Next line: “trading deadline is today, you know the sox are close to getting jermaine dye and, you know, pray for poor people and the sick, too”…

A follow-up from the friend who posted last week about Huckabee. He read the discussions here and elsewhere and wanted to respond. The second and third paragraphs are the most significant because my friend’s attitudes are those of lots of lots of evangelical Christians even if they won’t say so in public: Yes, it’s true…

I’m not sure the last time Republicans were directing people to the NY Times op/ed page. But count today as one of those days. There is a remarkable piece by two formerly fierce critics of the Iraq War – Kenneth Pollack and Michael O’Hanlon. Viewed from Iraq, where we just spent eight days meeting with…

I woke up with this in my head… I love this song.On a mostly unrelated note – Apple used it in a promotional video…

I went to church yesterday even though I haven’t ever been on a Saturday before. It was a short service – 20 minutes or so. There was no singing and no sermon. And the service was held at noon outside a Baskin Robbins ice cream shop. I took Livvy there, sweaty clothes, curly hair, red…
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