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What are the biggest changes you’ve seen in your lifetime?

My maternal grandparents were both born within a year of each other, 1903 and 1904. As a schoolboy, when I learned this was just around the time the Wright brothers took flight and that Henry Ford began producing Model A’s … Continue reading

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And It Came To Pass

I was not, as a kid, a particularly gifted athlete. I enjoyed sports, however, and so my hours were determined by the seasons: football, basketball, baseball. I realized early on that my gifts were limited, while my desire to compete … Continue reading

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Y is for YHWH, I Am that I Am

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Sniffing Out the Truth

Opinions are like noses, they say, everyone has one. One very common nose is that this bit of received wisdom means that we can never really know the truth. Which, of course, is a truth claim, and so contradicts itself. … Continue reading

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More Pious Than God; The Church and the Sexually Unrepentant

That accusation, “You’re more pious than God,” when rightly used isn’t an argument against piety, but against impiety. That is, when our scruples line up with the law of God we are not being anything other than faithful, as we … Continue reading

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V is for Vim, Vigor and Vitality

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A Matter of Life and Death

We live in strange times. It used to be said that the only two things we could be certain of were death and taxes. Taxes you can still be pretty sure of, but death has recently become rather more cloudy. … Continue reading

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The Institute for the Obvious

If you find yourself in a grand quandary, chances are you are missing the obvious. No, I don’t mean that all difficult questions come equipped with easy answers. The point isn’t that every complex question can only be reached through … Continue reading

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Animism; Purpose Driven Wife, Walking Hard Places; Credible Profession

Today’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Letter From A Youtube Jail

I’ve been a bit down of late, wondering what I was doing wrong. It seemed like all the cool kids were getting in trouble. Shadow-banned, put in twitter time-out, all my friends managed to provoke our social media overlords while … Continue reading

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