Posted on June 15, 2017
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“We live very close together. So, our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” H.H. The XIVth Dalai Lama I think it’s not an easy idea to define oneself in relation…
Posted on July 22, 2016
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I wrote this post six years ago on this very blog. I woke up this morning and thought that it might be worth re-posting just in case someone needed to read it: It is no secret that the past few weeks have been difficult….
Category: Community, encouragement, Evangelical church, Faith, God, HealingTags: encouragement, Faith, God, healing process, restoration, trauma, truth
Posted on January 27, 2015
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I want to recommend a book. I also want to be careful in how I go about recommending it. I wrote at least a year ago that I questioned how the Church at large would be able to handle a hypothetical influx of emancipated…
Category: Christianity, Community, Evangelical church, God, Healing, human trafficking, Jesus, Judaism, sex, sex trade, Sexual Abuse, Women's IssuesTags: central message of Christianity vs. Christian culture, Christian culture, Christianity and domestic violence statistics, human trafficking, sex, sexual healing after sexual abuse, sexuality and Christian culture
Posted on July 1, 2012
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I’ve neglected to post here for a while. Life got away from me. I suspect that sometimes there is so much that I want to say that I don’t know where to begin so I turn inward and say nothing. Just sit back and…
Category: Christianity, Community, Faith, Jesus, UncategorizedTags: Christianity, Faith, God, gossip, hypocrisy, Jesus, self-adulation