Two weeks ago, I showed many of my students a PSA (public service announcement) at the beginning of class. It is surprisingly powerful and emotional. In fact, since it’s less than two minutes long, I will just let the video make it’s own point without me spoiling anything.
March 3, 2010 marked the official day to [...]
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Sarah Palin has it right about the r-word
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 [...]
Continue →Samir Selmanovic – The Muslim Atheist Jewish Christian
A 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
In 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 [...]
Continue →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 [...]
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