Saving Time – Sort Of

As some of you may or may not know, Indiana switched back to Daylight Savings Time for the first time in about 30 years. Now, I grew up doing the DST clock switcheroo, so for me this was not a huge adjustment. For some Indiana natives, however, it was apparently...

Created

bq. He could have created us as peers, with all His knowledge and wisdom, so we could relate to Him perfectly. But even such created beings would still be inferior because they would not be gods. “#”:http://open-dialogue.com/blog/?p=467 How can the created...

Plank. Mote. Sound Familiar?

Why do we tend to focus more on the fact that others often hurt us with their words, however unintentionally, rather than on our own response to those people? How is that we forget that we are _not_ responsible for how others interact with us but rather we hold _full_...

Tattoos

I’ll be honest – I’m not entirely sure how I feel about “tattoos”:http://decompressingfaith.blogspot.com/2006/04/christians-and-tattoos.html at this point in my life. I don’t necessarily view them as the great, evil things that a...

Circuitous Development

I don’t usually like to be spoon-fed my ideas and opinions. I like to be able to work things out for myself, take what is known and think it through as comprehensively as possible to arrive at what seems to me to be a reasonable and elegant conclusion. I enjoy...

Caesura

Some days are better than others. I had good intentions to write something witty and prosaic today. I even had a couple of interesting topics. But as I find myself learning my job, I also find that those moments when I am between projects or when I am waiting for...