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All that jazz

I was in a staff meeting for a secular job once, and our company was exploring ways to help us “get in touch with ourselves spiritually”. Even with two master’s degrees in religion, I wasn’t totally sure what that meant. But I was happy to be employed, so I pasted a smile on my face…

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The Last Laugh

It's amazing how some religious people have absolutely no sense of humor. Actually, it makes me sad. I’ll never forget a quote I read from one religious leader regarding humor… “There are no jokes in our faith. There is no humor in our faith. There is no fun in our faith. There can be no…

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Go to church

I remember passing this sign as a college student in Alabama. It was on a piece of property right next to I-65, just north of Prattville. It was certainly easy to laugh at and dismiss, with the red devil complete with pitch fork and tail. Of course, nothing in the Bible depicts him in such…

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Tempus fugit

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. - F. Bueller, philosopher According to the trustworthy scholars at Wikipedia, the Latin phrase “tempus fugit” was first found in book 3 of Virgil’s Georgics. There it means, “it escapes, irretrievable time”. Or more simply put,…

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Right of Way

As an intellectual exercise today, I'd like us to deal with an analogy. a·nal·o·gy /əˈnaləjē/ noun -"a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification." Oftentimes when dealing with a moral problem, it helps to take a step back and look at…

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The Long Run

One buddy of mine, who we’ll call “Bill”, has fought an addiction to pornography his whole life. It started with a magazine he found by accident as a boy. The photographs inside permanently twisted him so that Bill can no longer get pleasure from what most would consider “normal sexual activity”. This has also limited…

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