My Father’s Death and Dylan Thomas’“Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”
The Dylan Thomas poem, “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night,” has always deeply affected me. So, this past February in the moments before my father died with his wife and children there beside him, I...
View ArticleDiscipleship & Same-sex Attraction: Relational Obedience?
Let’s stand back a sec and review what the Christian story is about. God created everything (Genesis) and it was good; all creation interrelated in perfection. Brokenness (sin) entered the world...
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Neil Taylor talks about his experiences in a Spiritual Direction Counseling course he took at North park Seminary
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Rise of Throat Cancer in Men Linked to Human Papillomavirus
Daily Mail New evidence of just how dangerous the sexually transmitted Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) can be continues to pile up. A recent National Cancer Institute study (to be released this week)...
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We are at family counseling, and Eden and I are coloring while we discuss the events of the week: Sage’s mysterious broken foot, Jude’s public meltdown that ended in an altercation between myself and a...
View ArticleHello Lady, Time to Go Home
Jude wants to go to the park. Don and the boys are at church, where I would like to be, but Jude tends to yell at whoever is preaching to go get him a bag of potato chips. A friend suggested I should...
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The Underpass
Jude is excited as we move along the sidewalk, towards the underpass and the lakefront. I am glad we live near the lake. Trails and trees, beaches and sailboats right there whenever we want them. It’s...
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Stay (Rebecca Hill)
It is Christmas. Jude and I are not eating with family and friends, because it is a little too noisy and a little too bright. Someone is saving me a plate, they always do, because I spend many holiday...
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Float (Rebecca Hill)
Eden and I are doing homework. He does a lot of it out loud because he has the family trait that he is brilliant verbally but writing things down is almost impossible. Sage has the same thing. I think...
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Here (Rebecca Hill)
Today was not a bad day, I cleaned a little, slept a little, and hunted for bugs in the yard with Eden and his friends. Drank coffee and laughed with someone I have missed. Don brought Jude out and...
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Who Loved Michal?
This is a story about a girl who loved a boy. The girl’s name was Michal. The boy’s name – we all know him – was David. David began as a shepherd boy, then a musician in Saul’s home there to soothe...
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Learning Grace… On Ebay?! by Eric Clayton
Learning Grace… On Ebay?! or A Soft Answer Turns Away Wrath by Eric Clayton “A soft answer turns away wrath” ”Be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.” I hate these verses. They define...
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Porn is the Wallpaper of Our Lives
Up late at night, perusing face book and then a feminist web site and then, these thoughts of my own… I’ve yet again been reading about 2nd Wave Feminism and its (usually) anti-porn stance vs the 3rd...
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