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What Will the Birthers Do Now?

What Will the Birthers Do Now?

By on April 28, 2011 in Uncategorized

As you may have heard, the President of the United States called a press conference yesterday to release his long form birth certificate to the public. While such a move may have seemed unnecessary and silly to some (based on the release of his short form birth certificate and numerous third-party confirmations of his birth [...]

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Love is Blind: From an Aficionado of LOST

Love is Blind: From an Aficionado of LOST

By on July 3, 2010 in Personal, Television

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 [...]

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Insights from Samir Selmanovic

By on March 27, 2010 in Personal

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 [...]

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Daddy, why don’t you go to church with us?

By on January 17, 2010 in Personal, Religion

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 [...]

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And another door opened…

By on December 29, 2009 in Personal

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 [...]

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Standing Spirit

Standing Spirit

By on December 11, 2009 in TPI
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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 [...]

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