Category: Tour Guides and Pilgrims
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[Note: Taking a short break from Nicolas Cage movie reviews for a good cause.] I think the “powers of commerce and social media” are just making up holidays at this point, but because this current day is one I happen to believe in, I’ll play along. Today is World Mental Health Day. It was established…
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I have to say I really like the “marketing” at the church we’ve been involved with the past few months. The first Sunday I went there, the pastor, Ryan, a tatooed, bearded guy a few years younger than me, invited essentially everyone to come enjoy Communion at the Lord’s table. Talk about the inclusive nature…
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My article that I posted the other day was about being involved in the community through the local public school. Christa is really the one in the family who is doing this. I just pay the bills and talk about it. The Seattle Times ran an article today and mentioned Christa (along with others) who are trying to help out…
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At times life makes no sense whatsoever. That may be the most understated sentence I’ve ever posted. But what do you do when you feel disoriented by life? When a loved one dies, when someone you are close to gets cancer, when your dear friends can’t have a baby of their own, when your wife/husband…
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At our best, Americans, are intensely awake to the contradictions we live and [are] redemptively troubled by them. Norman Mailer has suggested that to be a mainstream American is to live the life of a walking oxymoron, to be a heart in conflict with itself, with a psyche featuring Evel Knievel on one shoulder and…
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Kathleen Norris’ creative non-fiction novel, The Cloister Walk, is turning out to be a marathon read for me. I’ve been at it for months; not because it’s a grueling long-distance calorie burner, but because it’s so packed full of ideas to reflect upon it would be a great disservice to read it quick. I typically…
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(Salvador Dali’s Christ of Saint John of the Cross) I think I ask this question every year: Why is the day Jesus got crucified considered “good”? This year I actually did a little research on the topic. There are quite a few different ideas out there as to where the term “Good Friday” comes from,…
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When I moved the blog from Typepad to WordPress I gave it the byline: the journey there…and back again. You might remember that phrase from The Lord of the Rings. It seemed to sum up my life pretty succinctly. I feel like the human boomerang. Thrown across the ocean only to arc backwards and bounce…
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I’m convinced that monster.com must have one of the best advertising companies around. The reason I think this is because they tend to do really funny, thought-provoking TV commercials. I was just searching for a particular commercial I remembered from years ago when I realized that it, too, was also an Monster.com advertisement. You remember…
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“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be…
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