I grew up Southern Baptist — and I still attend a Southern Baptist church — but my faith journey has taken me through a lot more wide open ecumenical spaces than the narrow Southern Baptist road. I guess I’d describe myself as “Southern Baptist” in church attendance only. In reality, I’m an episcomethodemerging Christian. (Note…

So I’m on Facebook now. I’ve been putting it off for a long time. I registered for MySpace back when Facebook was still open only to college students and everyone was on MySpace. I did it mainly to promote my books and all that stuff. Then Facebook opened, everyone jumped to that side of the…

Just in case any of you are aspiring to the life of freelance writing because you think it’s a totally glam occupation full of interesting projects, here’s a list of some of the topics I’ve gotten paid to write about lately. • Childhood Obesity (Did you know more than 25 percent of Texas children are…

I can’t decide what to post today. When indecisive, it helps to make a list. 1. Stopforwarding.us is a helpful website if people keep sending you dubious forwards, unhelpful urban legends, unwanted photos, or letters about how the long-dead Madilyn Murray O’Hair is about to infringe on my religious liberties. If everyone sent people anonymous…

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