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May 18, 2013
New Anthology Story–excerpt
Clang, clang, clang, went the iron hammer on molten steel. Each blow sent a thousand liquid sparks exploding from the soft and malleable metal into the air, lighting up the room like a midsummer’s fireworks display. Jon Ames shifted his grip, adjusting his meaty hands through his heavy leather blacksmithing gloves; eyeing the cherry red […]
May 12, 2013
New Anthology and new story!
This summer the Franciscan University Writer’s Group will be communicating via Google Drive to create the second installment in the Continuum series. My story is about Captain Ames (some of you might recognize the name from The Tragedy of Carth Giaor, the first anthology story.) Needless to say, I’m super excited. If you haven’t already read Tragedy, pick […]
May 5, 2013
Christian Marriage Study Guide
1) What is human sexuality? The word and image of God Fundamental component of personality Biology of humanity made better by the spiritual aspect of humanity What themes enable us to distinguish a christian understanding of sexuality from a Neo-Pagan? The christian understanding of sexuality is that sex is deeply who you [...]
400m Dash
400m Dash The gunpowder wet-rain smell, overcast skies emptying, saturating the slippery oval rubber and clingy polysynthetic clothes with cold, stinging moisture. Jittery heart pounding nerves bounce legs up and down on bleachers; hands shake from adrenaline or cold– one can never tell–as heavy clothes slowly strip away revealing too short short–shorts and [...]
“Social Suicide”
Social Suicide By: Jacob Baugher Being who you are is not a disorder, but rather a social suicide. In churches, in houses, cafés, and automobile dealerships, (for who can trust a car salesman?) we, the eternally unfaithful, live and cry and laugh and die all listening to songs of ourselves in lip-sync: songs [...]
May 3, 2013
March 31, 2013
On the Subject Gay Marriage: Part One, Homosexual Acts
***This is the first part of a series of posts on what the Catholic Church teaches on Gay Marriage. I understand that the question isn’t fully answered now is the topic fully discussed. This post doesn’t even touch the issue of gay marriage, just homosexual acts. In our age of Internet memes, blog posts, and [...]
March 29, 2013
A Good Friday Reflection
Brothers and Sisters in Christ, On this Good and Blessed Friday, I stress to you the importance of Solitude. Just as Adam knew God alone in the solitude of Eden, so must we know him in the solitude of pure and penitent hearts. Retract your mind from the world and all of its technologies, for [...]
March 28, 2013
Special Release-The Tragedy of Carth Giator Page 1 Audio Recording
So what did I do in the first five hours of my Easter Break? What’s that? Homework? Finish a blog post? Do something actually productive? LOL WUT? On this first day of Easter break, I took the time to read through my speech impediment and give my wonderful readers and all those who [...]
