Sunday, November 23, 2025

Potato Chips and Thanksgiving

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  ( From my book,  Praying: Reflections on 40 Years of Solitary Conversations with God , Kindle Locations 3590-3612) There was a man in our ...
Friday, November 21, 2025

The Great Invasion: 31 Days of Christmas - INTRODUCTION

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  This is from my Christmas devotional book The Great Invasion: 31 Days of Christmas . The book's thesis is: The more we know about Jesu...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

The Role of a Pastor

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                                                                     (Cancun sunrise) Happy Thanksgiving Season to my pastoral colleagues! I...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Two Modes of Thankfulness

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  ("The One Who Showed Mercy") Not every mode of thankfulness is to be applauded. One misguided form of thankfulness is seeing a b...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Physics and Philosophy of Time

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  (I have aged. Linda has not.) (I'm re-posting this for a friend.) I am seventy-four years old. Where has the time gone!? And what, any...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

Willam P. Alston – Religious Experience as Perception of God

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Self Today I've been looking over some old notes on religious experience, mysticism, and properly basic beliefs. Theistic philosoph...

Adultery: It's Not Complicated (Some Moral Truths Don't Change)

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  When it comes to "sin," things have pretty much been the same over the centuries. Stealing is still experienced as wrong. Lying,...
Friday, November 14, 2025

Why So Many Kids Are Not OK

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                                                        (Empire Beach sunset (Michigan)) Jonathan Haidt's book The Coddling of the Ameri...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

Two Reasons to Abstain from Degrading People

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                                                                    (Our church yard) A follower of Jesus will not abuse people verbally. Fo...

Praying on the "Thank God Ledge"

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(I'm re-posting this. It's from my book  Praying: Reflections on 40 Years of Solitary Conversations with God . Linda and I saw ...