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Wed 9 Jun, 2010

Are We Missing God’s Plan for Our Adulthood?

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What is the difference between the carefree innocence of childhood and the joy that God wants us to have in adulthood? It all has to do with how we deal with the reality of evil in our lives. God does not desire us to remain children, nor to mature into gloomy cusses. He wants the carefree innocence of childhood to mature into something more substantial. Continue reading

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Thu 1 Apr, 2010

Faith and Reason

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OK! One of my two major writing projects is completed and I now have time to dedicate to the blog and website again. I have probably by now lost all of my readers and will need to start from scratch. However, being me, instead of starting something new I’m going to continue the thread of thought that I left off with in my review of The Shack, even though most… Continue reading

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Fri 19 Sep, 2008

Enjoying the Gift but Loving the Giver More

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In our diocesan parenting program, “Teaching the Way of Love,” one of the points we make is that we need to teach our children how to receive love well in addition to teaching them how to give love. I tell the story of Christmas at my parents’ home and at the home of my in-laws.

At my wife’s family’s Christmas celebration the kids are turned loose at a designated… Continue reading

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Thu 11 Sep, 2008

What America Needs is a Good Clown

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I just listened to Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s program, “The Clown is Always Right” (an episode of Life is Worth Living). Archbishop Sheen proposes that clowns hold within their characters the ideal balance of seriousness and humor. He then describes in modern culture the division of classes, some of which take the world too seriously and have no humor and others how live only to enjoy life and take nothing seriously… Continue reading

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Sat 6 Sep, 2008

Genetic Faithfulness?

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Have you heard the news? Scientists may have identified a genetic root of marital infidelity in men. If you haven’t heard, you can check out the story here

Study Links Gene Variant in Men to Marital Discord – washingtonpost.com.

Now, are you ready for my response? Here it comes . . .

So what?

Frankly, from what I know of my own fallen manhood… Continue reading

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