scriptures Archive

  • Unexpected Spiritual Experiences: Sacred Artifacts and Rituals

    Posted on August 17, 2012 | 4 Comments
    I'm a faithful skeptic, a doubting believer; this is why these spiritual experiences were so unexpected.

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  • My Own Personal Canon: Southern-fried Love

    Posted on November 20, 2011 | 9 Comments
    In Paul’s 2nd epistle to Timothy,  chapter 3, verses 14-17, we read this ringing endorsement of inspired writings: But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and has been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that from a child […]

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  • My Oldest Possession

    Posted on March 25, 2011 | 9 Comments
    Forty years ago today I received a gift, an item I've owned longer, and used more often, than any other possession

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  • Mojibake!

    Posted on January 8, 2011 | 14 Comments
    [Updated with Bad Religion] The Holy Bible tells a story rich in metaphor which marks the tendency for information to change as it passes through and between human minds. The story I'm thinking of is The Tower of Babel, of course.

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  • Let My People Go

    Posted on December 15, 2010 | 10 Comments
    My little Stuart has a bleeding heart. He is unusually quick, I think, to identify a person or an action as being unfair or unkind and to want to right the wrong (unless it’s one of his sisters, in the which case it’s revenge, no […]

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  • Mormon Fakebook Update: 7

    Posted on October 18, 2010 | 2 Comments
    Where's Noah this time? Pics are on FB! :)

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