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    Lent- Day 5: My tears have been my food.

          “My dad is dying.”     Those words flashed through my mind and then hung, like weights, in my thoughts, in my heart, all day today.   My brother Joe…

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    Lent- Day 4: Every breath you take.

    H/T: My brother Joe       I use to watch Brian Williams most nights on NBC’s Nightly News. I had started watching the program as a kid when Tom Brokaw was…

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    Lent- Day 3: A chasing after the wind.

      (Marie Claire)     Last week, as Kanye West’s post-Grammy rant went viral, my brother Joe sent me a simple text:     We can only wish that Kanye would stop…

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    Lent- Day 2: Empires do fall.

        Last month Fox premiered the soapy drama “Empire”, starring Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson. Howard plays Lucious Lyon, a rapper turned entertainment mogul (head of “Empire Records”), opposite Henson as…

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    Lent- Day 1

      “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”     Those are the words typically spoken by the pastor, deacon or administrant while spreading ashes on the foreheads…

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    The dark night of the souls.

      (Source)   I just read a fascinating (and somewhat frightening)article at The Atlantic about the dark side of meditation.    Yes, the dark side.   Growing up going to conservative Christian churches and…

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    Mark Driscoll Apologizes.

      Some encouraging news out of Seattle’s Mars Hills Church from Mark Driscoll, by way of Benjamin L. Cory at Formerly Fundie:   Mark Driscoll, it appears, is repenting.   I didn’t…

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    Sexy Gospel Body & Soul

        Zoe’s already had two tantrums this morning… and it’s only 10! So how about a little holy humor?    

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    It’s that time of year again…

    At High Hill Farms in Virginia.   Just a week after K and I married, we took my nephews, Justin and Nate trick-or-treating. This was a rather new experience for both K…

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    “And what I loved most, she had so much soul”

        (Cynical) Note from Alisha: I just spent an hour working on this post which detailed my trip to Chicago, where I am currently to undergo medical tests. I then went…