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The Vacation Continues
Back when I was first sent to my assigned military duty station in the Netherlands, I spent a week shadowing my supervisor. He and another sergeant were chatting about taking in a volksmarch later that day. The other fellow said, … Continue reading →
Added to Archives: Omnisexual
I had put this aside because the original needed extensive editing, but forgot to finish it all the other stuff I was doing. Here it is: Omnisexual [PDF]. This is where I eviscerate the political debate about gay rights. Christians … Continue reading →
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Heart of Faith Published
The cover art is something I grabbed from US government archives under public domain, this time using the site run by the federal highway folks. They have these nice tourist drives with pictures listed on their site. You might want … Continue reading →
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Heart of Faith: Chapter 11
Chapter 11 — Testing, Testing I propose a test. Teaching the mind to follow the leadership of the heart takes time, for those who have never tried it. The full flower is when a firmly held intellectual belief is trumped … Continue reading →
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Heart of Faith: Chapter 9
Chapter 9 — My Story God laid upon the family household the duty to provide children with a frame of reference, a structure that would include and enable a grasp of God’s moral Law. It’s a bias. To be human … Continue reading →
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Heart of Faith: Chapter 8
Chapter 8 — More on Legalism It seems odd that mainstream Christianity is so quick to nitpick over some passages of Scripture — what Christ called “sifting out gnats” from flour — and swallowing the camel on other passages (Matthew … Continue reading →
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Heart of Faith: Chapter 7
Christine has asked me to share her story second hand. She’s a marvelous writer but the timing of this book caught her tied up with a lot of her own moral responsibilities. What makes her story important for us is … Continue reading →
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Heart of Faith: Chapter 3
Chapter 3 — Rebuilding Redemption The science is clear enough as far as it goes. Because of the Western bias against a higher faculty in the human soul, a common assumption is that anything not rational is something less. Often … Continue reading →
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Heart of Faith: Chapter 1
Hebrew Outlook On the one hand, we need very much to correct the Western assumptions. Even very scholarly Christians tend to operate from perverted Western notions without giving it much thought. We can call them “perverted” because they are entirely … Continue reading →
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Heart of Faith: Intro
It’s a tragedy of Western culture that relegates the heart to a mere metaphor of human emotion. Ours is the only culture that does that; every other civilization seems to have understood that the heart is quite literally the seat … Continue reading →
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