Even though I may not be able to make a sailor blush, I’ve been known to run a blue streak with my mouth from time to time. Most of the time, it has been a moment of anger that would inspire an outburst of coarse or profane language from my lips. But, with my close [...]
Samir Selmanovic – The Muslim Atheist Jewish Christian
Culture, Personal, Writers // January 31, 2010A couple of months ago, I stumbled across a video about an author named Samir Selmanovic on Zach Lind’s website. If you don’t want to make the jump, you can just watch the video here:
The video was exactly the breath of fresh air that my religion-weary lungs needed to take in. I started a quest [...]
From Haiti with Love: Part I
Culture, Personal // January 24, 2010In the fall of 2008, I was lost. I had just arrived at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. My instructions from Lenny were to wait for a man named Nader (like Darth Vader), and to NOT GO OUTSIDE. Nader was the man who was supposed to taxi me to a smaller airport to [...]
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Daddy, why don’t you go to church with us?
This morning, while sitting at the kitchen table, the question that I had expected my son to eventually ask me, was finally asked. After taking the self-applied clip-on tie off of his undershirt, buttoning his top button, and correctly reseting the tie, he looked at me and said:
“Daddy, why don’t you go to church with [...]
Continue →Nick Saban and Alabama reach the goal
After a disappointing end to last year’s nearly perfect football campaign, the University of Alabama football team completed their perfect season last night with a win over the University of Texas in the BCS National Championship game.
A lot has been said about the reasons for Alabama’s resurgence to national prominence as a football powerhouse. Most [...]
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One of the paradoxes of the curriculum at The Pacific Institute (and I mean that in a very complementary way) is the mandate to set a firm goal, and to be flexible with the process that gets you there. Maybe its more of a misnomer than a paradox, because it’s often difficult to identify what [...]
Continue →Tuesday Newsday – El Fin
Tuesday Newsday has been a fun idea over the last several months. Some of the stories struck a nerve (Roman Polanski, Jon and Kate), while others just struck a thud (Jasmine Fiore, Super Memory). Either way, the discipline and rhythm of searching the news for topics to write about was a healthy one, often exposing [...]
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