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The Good, the Bad, and the In the Meantime

Sometimes I read my scheduled blog posts before posting them. And sometimes when I do this I think, “This is a nice post” or “This will make someone out there smile” or “Way to go, Muse! You fickle, fickle beast!”

Sometimes, though, I don’t think any of these things. Sometimes the post doesn’t make me laugh or cry or smile or really feel anything at all. Then, I begin combing the post for something–anything–I missed: an ill-timed punchline that could be spruced up or a phrase that could be add...

Chewed Out

Things were fine, the day was great

Then stepped in, that oft cruel fate

Quiet and calm, ‘twas a sneaking thing

Aided on by the wearer of a wedding ring

I came home, the workday done

Groggy and tired, evening had begun

My wife was no place to be found

To the kitchen I went, for a Fudge Round

There’s nothing quite like a pre-dinner treat

But an empty Little Debbie box revealed defeat

I thrashed, I cried, I cursed at life

But quietly so as not to tip off my wife

She could have come and saved the day

“I’ll m...

The End of The Office

Tonight my dear old dog gets shot, and I’m pretty excited. Don’t get me wrong, I love old Barkley. I’ve had him for nine years and we’ve been just thick as thieves. Trouble is, a few years ago he lost his eyesight—got all scratched up by a cougar or something. After that he just sort of stumbled around, bumping into things. Sure, occasionally this was funny, but I felt for the old pup and missed his good old days. And now his health is all deteriorated—worms and everything else—and it is just...

How to Live in a Nation that is not “Christian”

The idea that the United States is a Christian nation is ludicrous. If it ever were such a thing—which some historians would have one believe was so—it is now a relic of the past. The morals of this country—exhibited in modern individual expression from womb to tomb—have paganism written all over them.

But here is the very important truth, one those of us who claim to be Christ followers often neglect: That this is okay.

What we do, instead, is look around at this or that election that didn’t g...