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“Hey Doug, would you meet me this evening at the local coffee shop? I want to get an update on the recent events from Ana’s birthday.” This was the ask that got me to go out in the beginning of a February snowstorm and meet with the head of the…
Editor’s note: this post was birthed prior to the correct ruling in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery and the subsequent statement made by his father, Marcus, which angered godless people everywhere within the sound of his voice. Here it is, just in case you too are addicted to outrage. Now…
If you follow me on Gab, and you really ought to, then you know that I had elbow surgery this last Monday. I’m recovering nicely, but my #NoQuarterNovember may have to be delayed. Perhaps it will go into December. I have been enjoying it too much to just call it…
One of my responsibilities as an elder was church security. It was a smaller church, unable to afford security officers, so my role in any emergency was to direct the people to a safe location by any means possible. That emergency could be a fire or an injury, perhaps an…
Remember George Floyd, the rapist who pulled a gun on a pregnant woman, and who died under the knee of a police officer while on a dose of Fentanyl that would have killed a grizzly bear? That was a bad day for everyone. A bad day for George, even if…
I have a serious objection to pastors and churches claiming that withdrawing from others, wearing masks, injecting experimental substances into yourselves as well as others, and generally living lives of fear is the best way to love your neighbor. Loving your neighbor sounds like a great idea, something we really…
For the purpose of this post, I will be assuming the complementarian view. You are free to disagree with me on your own, but this post and any resulting comments are not intended to debate the relative merits of egalitarianism. Mostly because there are so few of them, and they…
I spent a decade in a church that taught that the greatest love we could show is when we set aside our rights for the good of others. I agreed with the principle of the statement, that sometimes a Christian is called upon to sacrifice time, resources, reputation, even life…
There are numerous ways that we use the months to raise awareness about this or that. June is the month where the wicked express their appreciation for the sexually degenerate. October is the month where we focus on a type of cancer, rather than all cancer, and not even the…
With my upcoming “No Quarter November” I thought it may only be fair of me to issue a general statement of warning. And so I looked for such a statement to model my own statement after. I couldn’t find anything about my website that might cause any physical problems, though…
