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What it's All About

June 1, 2010

“That we might glorify God by being a faithful steward in all that is entrusted to our care, and that we might have a positive influence on all the people that we might come in contact with.” Sound like a pretty good mission statement?  Make…

The First Day of the Rest of My Life

May 31, 2010

That day would be today. No, that’s not news, I grant, but today is a day unlike any I’ve had in my life.  Yesterday, I completed my time as pastor at Red Oak, an Evangelical Free Church.  Today, I am opening shift manager at the…

Pants on the Ground, Y'all…

May 29, 2010

My old friend Kerri Linto Smith with her cornfed interpretation of a new American classic…

Neville Obama?

May 23, 2010

Charles Krauthammer makes the case that this presidency is disastrous with regard to foreign policy.

Crash and Burn, Pennsylvania-Style

May 19, 2010

I lived for over 13 years in NW PA, arriving there just a few months removed from a highly-contested U.S. Senate election in which Arlen Specter narrowly beat a Democrat lady who was still incensed about his rough treatment of Anita Hill during the Clarence…

Scrabble, Episode 3

May 18, 2010

OK, so on the first show, I won big, and then in the second show, I should have lost in the first round, then had a cakewalk in the second, and got impatient and blew a decent shot at the 5 grand in the Jackpot…