Every wannabe wordsmith has a shoehorn in the toolbelt I often get my words confused. I am prone to becoming drunk with the potential power that the right words can provide to the right prose. Communication is all about pictures, and the emotions that those pictures bring to us. If a word creates a certain [...]
Tag Archives: belief
Insights from Samir Selmanovic
In January, I mentioned a new author named Samir Selmanovic, here on my blog. Actually, he a Christian pastor, and this book is about his spiritual journey from Islam, Judaism, atheism, and finally to Christianity. His beliefs are not so much a progression into Christianity, but rather a synthesis of these different chapters in his [...]
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 [...]
And another door opened…
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 [...]
Standing Spirit
In 1994, Brad Jacobsen was hanging out with some friends along the bank of a river in the Pacific Northwest. Someone decided to break out a frisbee, and a spirited game began. At some point, when someone threw a frisbee near to one side of him, like he did with so many other things in [...]
John Mayer acting 32
I do not own a John Mayer album. I can’t say that I was tapping my toes when my brother introduced his music to me during a car ride through the New Mexico desert a few years back. I do remember his Volkswagen commercial where he just shreds his guitar while using the car’s audio system [...]
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Tuesday Newsday – Roman Polanski Arrested
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What’s next for Jon and Kate?
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Daddy, why don’t you go to church with us?
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Are Brad Pitt’s beliefs worth more than yours? (Or less?)
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Elizabeth Lambert – AKA The Dirty Female Soccer Player
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Summer of Love
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Anne Rice Outs Herself from Christianity
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Gaps… Gotta Love ‘em!
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Atheists… who needs them?
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Love is Blind: From an Aficionado of LOST
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