The fundamentalists and atheists have both got it wrong, I mused as a Christmas Eve service at our church was drawing to a close tonight.   The...

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For anyone who regularly reads this blog—first, thank you! Second, you might have noticed that I’ve taken a break from blogging regularly. I will con...

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Sometimes you can enrich your life by harnessing your ambition into a very simple approach that can flavor anything you do in a wide variety of settin...

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It’s amusing to sit in the aisle seat on a commercial flight. The passengers walking toward the rear of the plane look so serious, scanning for a pote...

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I wrote this in my journal last week: “All worthy institutions fade into irrelevancy in the absence of compassion.” The statement could have been ref...

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There is reading, and there is writing. One is learning, and one is contributing. They are symbiotic; one reinforces the other, and both are essential...

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Today, while touring a display of the works of blown glass artist Dale Chihuly, I was struck by a written summary of his work. Chihuly, a plaque on th...

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“Romantics” get a bad generalization rap. Usually the extra adjective “hopeless” gets attached to them—as in, hopeless to avoid colliding with pain, d...

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