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The natural gas leaks our son has been experiencing have improved dramatically. Not coincidentally, I am sure, the east coast of the United States has been cooler this week. Perhaps it is because she no longer fears being in his line of fart fire or perhaps it is just because she is resigned to the…

Growing up my father told me the stories that he was told as a boy growing up in China in the 1920s. I don’t remember all the details but I do remember that the stories lacked in subtlety. They scared the heck out of me. One of the stories was a version of the boy…

John Edwards is a rich hypocrite. He is vain. He spends too much money on his hair, his house and everything else. He isn’t believable. He shouldn’t be talking about the poor – he is just using them. These are the critiques that I read about him in print and in my blog and in…

John Edwards is taking a break from fundraisers and a break from campaigning in primary states. Instead, for three days next week he will be going on a poverty tour: Edwards’ “Road to One America” tour will take him through New Orleans, Memphis, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and eight other cities and eight states. It begins on…

A day after the hubbub. A few thoughts: We live in a day and age where Christians of every kind need to understand that their theological statements are more than theology, they are evangelism. To a world conditioned to think of Christians as politically rigid, morally judgmental, and generally dull, every theological statement or policy…

I have a friend who is pretty much a fundamentalist. She wraps it in intellectual garb but he is a fundamentalist and he knows it. She pretty much believes that the earth is only about 6000 years old. A couple years ago she had a son. She named him John Paul. It was a bit…

Ok, this will require an honor code. While thinking this morning about Christians and politics this jumped to mind. As one who tries to follow Jesus and one who talks about the importance of the spiritual first and the political second I want to let you know that I failed the following quiz miserably. (And…

A wonderful discovery – Gregory Boyd, his book The Myth of a Christian Nation, his church, and his blog and his ministry website. Though we haven’t ever met, we share the same concern – that Jesus is more important than politics no matter the politics. I am not sure that I fully agree with or…

My month-old son farts…a lot. I’m not talking an occasional discreet toot. I’m talking 12-hours-after-eating-a-bowl-full-of-hot-chili-and-beans fart; farting so loud and powerful it will wake him up from a deep sleep. If sleep apnia describes people who have trouble sleeping because they stop breathing, he has fart apnia. We cannot quite figure out what is causing…

I got this note from a friend: I visited Indiana University in Bloomington last week and saw an unusual bust of an Union Colonel that was commissioned by Confederate soldiers who were interned at Camp Morton near Indianapolis…. I was very moved and impressed that former prisoners of war would want to honor their former…
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