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Random! (Or maybe not) Thoughts at 10,000 hits…
Random! (Or maybe not) Thoughts at 10,000 hits… As of this morning on my way to work, I finally achieved 10,000 hits (views) on my blog. I say “finally” because the last three blog articles were about exceptionally cool people and I thought that they would each get way more hits. That’s the nature of…
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Rebekah Anderson — Woman/Girl Extraordinaire
It’s been an interesting week in birthday land, and I had already planned to write this post, but it turns out there’s more to this story even today, and there will clearly be more to come… In the world of political correct language, I am not sure how to describe someone who’s “handicapped”. My wife…
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Bad Lessons
With one sentence, it was over. “We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty”. I don’t know what to say about the end of the Trayvon Martin case. Mr. Zimmerman had his day in court and the jury found him not guilty. This is what I, and so many others, had asked for — a…
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Standing In The Need of Prayer — Or At Least Introspection (for Gerry a
“Not my brother, not my sister, but it’s me, Oh, Lord, standing in the need of prayer” — African-American spiritual “Senators, Congressmen, please head the call/Don’t stand in the doorway/Don’t lock up the hall… for the times/they are a-changin’ — Bob Dylan “People are people/so why should it be/that you and I should get along…
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Men Who Like Women Don’t….
It seems so very stupid to have to write this, but it’s been a rough day for women so, once again, I feel I have to point out the “obvious”. Forget categories like “real men” or “macho men” or “lady’s man” or “man’s man” or “guys” — men who like women in any way — …
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Jerry, I Hardly Met You
The adults in my house have come to the conclusion that 2013 has too many deaths in it already. Our housemate has done 6 funerals in the last month or so, my wife grieves and notices all the catastrophes of late and so far this year I have seen too much death too close to…
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Don’t Let This Happen To You — Sudden Loss (for Lynda and others)
“This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it”. Psalm 118:24 “For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness” — unknown, seen on the desk of my friend Alan Bercovici I frequently preach this, but it has never hit quite this close…
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In Praise of Good, Straight, White Men
I suppose I have wanted to write this for nearly 25 years, before there were blogs. Now that I have the opportunity, I want to take it. My family and I have just come back from seeing “42” — the movie about Jackie Robinson’s rise as the first African-American player in Major League Baseball. But, as…
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People In Your Neighborhood — Patti
One of the joys of belonging to a church is that you meet people you wouldn’t normally get to meet. While Sunday morning is still one of the most racially segregated times of the week in America, South Church in New Britain is a real mix of people of all colors, classes, ages, denominations and…
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