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May 7, 2012
The Boy With a Broken Heart is Born (Day Six)
I wrote a story a while back about a family in our church back in Pueblo whose baby was due just after we left town. Early in the pregnancy, doctors diagnosed little Avery with HLHS, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. There was a good chance he’d need surgery in utero or immediately after being born, and [...]
May 6, 2012
A Hundred Hidden Kisses (Day Five)
We headed west toward Las Vegas this morning; chasing daylight toward the coast, leaving the kids in the care of grandma and grandpa. I’ll give you one guess to figure out which one of us had a harder time leaving. Personally, I know they’re safe at the farm, and they’ll have a lot more fun [...]
Church Sign Epic Fails, Part Eleven
It’s Sunday, which means it’s time once again to amuse readers and rescue desperate preachers with some less-than-perfect church signage. Church Sign Epic Fails, Part Ten Cherch Sine Epuc Failz: Badd Spellurs Edishun Church Sign Epic Fails, Part Eight Church Sign Epic Fails: Easter Edition Church Sign Epic Fails, Part Six Church sign epic fails, [...]
May 5, 2012
Life on the Farm: A Photo Essay (Day Four)
Amy’s mom, Suzie, and stepfather, Russ, live on a 12-acre apple orchard nestled against the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico. Instead of describing it, I decided to show it.Click on each photo for a larger version. Enjoy.
May 4, 2012
Clowns, Bad Haircuts and Dreams of Disaster (Day Three)
“I had a weird dream last night,” Amy said, “that our house in Pueblo was burning down. I called the fire department and instead of firefighters, they sent a whole bunch of clowns on unicycles. “I told them they needed to put out the fire, but they just kept riding around in circles on their [...]
May 3, 2012
Hearts in the Trash (Day Two)
It turns out that packing all the belongings you need for at least three months into the back of a Prius is a challenge. Of course, being a guy it’s the kind of challenge that makes life worth living. Anyone who has ever been a Tetris junkie can appreciate the exhilaration of fitting forty-seven differently [...]
May 2, 2012
Lost and Found Life (Day One)
I’m pretty sure if Dante’s Inferno portrays a for-real place, one of the circles has people packing and unpacking for all eternity. There have been lots of roller-coaster moments in the last few days. Sunday, we said goodbye to the church we started in our living room eight years ago. The first week, we thought [...]
April 30, 2012
Global Belief Survey Compares Faith of Nations
The University of Chicago recently performed an exhaustive survey of the beliefs of people in thirty different countries around the world. There were a few surprises in it, and I also struggled a bit with the entire structure of the survey. As for surprises, many might not expect to find the United States at #5 [...]
April 29, 2012
Church Sign Epic Fails, Part Ten
It seems like only a few weeks ago that we started this journey in search of ridiculous church signs. Actually it was only a few weeks ago, but here we are, back for two full hands worth of epic fail posts. Here are some of the older posts in case you’ve missed them: Cherch Sine [...]
April 28, 2012
Further Thoughts on Mars Hill and the “Angry Queers”
There’s been some interesting discussion following my recent post about the vandalism of a Mars Hill satellite church by a group calling themselves the Angry Queers. Most of it has been on the Sojourners site, where the article was reposted. It’s a complicated enough issue that I thought I might continue my thoughts, particularly in [...]
