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Casual Friday – How Long Have You Been Alive?
Tony Campolo tells a story about how he challenged his students at Eastern College by asking them, “how long have you been alive”? They responded by reciting their birthdays, almost without thinking....
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Don’t Let This Be All There Is!
My parents used to live in Germany and we were lucky enough to get to visit them on two occasions when they lived there. One of the most profound experiences of my life was when we visited Dachau...
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Working Out
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” ― Leo Tolstoy I have written in the past about my attempts to become a body-builder when I was in my early twenties. To make a long...
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The Criticism of Celebrity Rehab
Are we still so naive that we assume television is actually like real life? Do people still believe shows like Celebrity Rehab, Intervention and Extreme Makeover, Home Edition have anything to do with...
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The Truth About Suicide
Most of us will probably be touched by a suicide in our lifetime. In a world that fancies itself evolved, suicide remains a leading cause of premature death and is more popular today than ever before....
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The Truth About Suicide Part Two – The Myth Of The Unforgivable Sin
I remember the first time I heard it. I was in, admittedly, a religious meeting, a youth meeting. The speaker asked various small groups around the room to talk about suicide. I was an observer. As I...
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The Rest Of My Life
I am getting shockingly old. I’m not quite sure how it happened but one day I was mildly cool (back when cool was a thing) and seemingly the next day I was old. How did this happen? I was always the...
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Beginnings And Endings
It’s that time of the year again. Time to look ahead in anticipation of what is not yet. We are in a state of becoming. Everything has been made new. It’s also a time to say goodbye. Gone are those...
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Goalies and Gatekeepers
I have never been very good at being a goalie. It has gotten me in trouble all my life. There is something to be said for encouragement. I have always tried to be that cheerleader, even when someone...
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Grief
It’s very hard to describe to someone how grief feels. I remember when I was going through my own persistent hell I was taken to a doctor who flippantly told me, “you’ll be fine soon”. He was, not to...
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Guest Blogger – My Dad on Death and Dying
My dad was an orphan whose father fell off a skyscraper a few days before switching jobs. Howie was one year old. His mother died when he was eleven, after being hospitalized for over six… More
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