I remember a particular day a number of years ago when I was in the library looking for childrens’ books. My children were at the age where books needed to have lots of pictures and not too many words to be interesting. As I looked through I realized “Hey, all I’m looking for is good stories. What is it with all these books that have [more]
Mar 282007
This is the latest response I sent to the Wednesday Journal, in the dialog between me and Rev. Dean Lueking. It’s on their website here. It’s a response to The search to know God, the gift of being known by God by Rev Lueking, published by the newspaper in December. Dean, in your most recent response to me, you asked about sharing with me what [more]
Feb 182007
Almost 5500 churches in the US and Canada are recognizing today as Amazing Grace Sunday. This campaign sounded a bit ‘churchy’ for me when I first heard about it. Now I’ve decided I like it, since it’s about ending modern-day slavery around the world. So I was very pleased to see the church I used to go to has the logo for it on their [more]
Feb 142007
Valentine’s Day seems to be mostly about romantic love (which, by the way, causes the same brain chemistry as going slightly insane). According to Wikipedia, this focus came about in the Middle Ages. The Catholic Church designated February 14 as the Feast of St. Valentine centuries before that, in honor of a martyr named Valentine. Apparently it was a popular name – there was more [more]
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