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A Thing Like That

This week I have been reading. Some weeks I read more than others, this week there has been a high dose input of words. I read a novel by Kurt Vonnegut, one of those that I’d not gotten to before. I read a chunk of articles discussing the social imaginary of the founders of the US. And I read a significant bit about the theories of the atonement of Christ. That last bit was a…

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Getting through the days

I sat down just now to begin to write and that was about the best title I could come up with. Getting through the days. It sometimes feels that way. I wonder if anyone else likes that phrase. I wonder if anyone else uses it like I do. We watch the news. We read the papers. We scroll through the endless arguments on our timelines, or drive down our streets and view protestors of one…

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Hello World Again!

When you start one of these websites, the first post is always titled “Hello world” by default. I find that both interesting and completely redundant at this point. Before I was a pastor I was a web designer and internet consultant for small businesses learning how to use the internet. Yes indeed, I’m that old. I still look fondly back at the days of designing websites with code in dreamweaver. Then along came this new…

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