Category: odds and ends
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› Read more: Fiction in a Fractured World
Fiction in a Fractured World
When life feels out of control and the news too heavy, I find myself drawn to one of two places:…
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› Read more: Action-value in an Information Age
Action-value in an Information Age
If the amount of input and information received over the centuries was compared to waves, the progression would look like…
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› Read more: God, Give Us Tears
God, Give Us Tears
I wrote this a few years ago, but in light of COVID-19, I was reminded that one of the gifts…
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› Read more: How Our Holidays Reveal Our Hearts
How Our Holidays Reveal Our Hearts
What began as a silly way to make a long drive feel shorter quickly became a source of exposure and…
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› Read more: When Ensemble is Enough
When Ensemble is Enough
Every Thursday evening from 6 to 9 pm for years, I would go to theater classes at Spring Lake Community Playhouse.…
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› Read more: An Avocado Soul
An Avocado Soul
I don’t remember eating, or even seeing, avocados until I was an adult. I am certain they existed, but they…
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› Read more: When Fiction Strengthens Faith: Silas Marner
When Fiction Strengthens Faith: Silas Marner
Fiction has a way of enfleshing fact and enlivening truth. I delight to see glimpses of Biblical and eternal truths…
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› Read more: On Pin Cushions and Preoccuption
On Pin Cushions and Preoccuption
Preoccupied: to be so engrossed with thoughts of something or someone that you are unable to engage in other things.…
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› Read more: From Flimsy to Firm: Theological Ossification
From Flimsy to Firm: Theological Ossification
Babies are born with 350 soft bones, which explains not only their arrivals from such tight beginnings, but also their talent…
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› Read more: An Hachiko Heart
An Hachiko Heart
Y’all. Our dog is insane. We brought this mixed breed pup home when he was just a tiny brown little…