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I had a birthday gift awaiting my inbox on the honeymoon a few weeks ago. A friend in Dothan, AL has a family member of the Catholic tribe, who reads Greek (much better than I), and is versed in deciphering icons. Here was his bit of translating work:
Fortunately, I was able to [...]
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our wedding playlist
Helen and I had a lot of fun putting together our wedding ceremony playlist. We were going to go with live music, knowing a couple of stellar musicians, but alas, we were unable to get them music as early as we wanted to, so we pulled the plug on going live, and went with mp3’s. [...]
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Tags: Gregor Samsa, Josh Garrels, Lamke, radiohead, Sigur Ros, Sufjan Stevens, Taize, u2, wedding, wedding ceremony, wedding music
the formation of a funell cloud
Helen and I were at lunch today celebrating with our graduating seniors and their families at Village Tavern at the Summit. We caught wind of a funnel cloud that had supposedly come near the Galleria area and was moving eastward. Knowing that we were in its path, I did what any normal person would do—I [...]
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Tags: birmingham alabama, funnel cloud, storm, tornado, weather
the parable of the puzzle
There lived on the outskirts of a city, in a quaint cottage, an old, retired professor. This professor’s life’s work had been an attempt to disprove the existence of God–especially the existence of the Christian God. His library, in which he took great pride, was full of the works of well-known atheistic [...]
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Tags: atheism, mystery, parable, Trinity
Am I a Christian or an American?
My friend Dan (a high priest of the Priesthood) was telling me a story the other day about a conversation he had with his beautiful six-year-old daughter Natalie. A little context: Dan and his family don’t “go to church,” at least not in the American Christendom (read: Bible Belt) sense of the the phrase [...]
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Tags: nationalism, syncretism
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