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Let Love Rule pops up on my ipod playlist and I groove mindlessly while riding in my very untricked out Honda Element. As I look in my rear view mirror to see Sydney, my happy 16 month old, shaking her head along with the car tunes, I notice the cheerios, goldfish crackers, and a herd of pacifiers resting in the various car nooks and crannies. That is when it happened. In the middle of the

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Karl Marx wrote that "Religion is the opiate of the Masses". The critique, at least how this quote has been used, is that religion is an escapist drug that keeps people from dealing with reality. Religion is a drug that heightens our emotions but not our intellect or action. Now, I think that there are many arguments that could be made to the point that this is often how religion has been used

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I dream a lot. I remember my dreams and some are great and some not so great. I have woken myself up laughing, crying, and one time I woke everyone up yelling in terror at the top of my lungs (there was a giant cube floating over my bed). Well, recently I was having a discussion with my friends 7 year old and he was telling me about a nightmare he had and it reminded my of my favorite

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check this link, its worth it.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY&feature=relatedThere is nothing that I can say that can add to this, but i will anyway. It is worth your time to watch this clip. Truly inspiring.

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The season of Easter loves its symbolism. The universal understanding of the possibility of new life. But new life from what? The average "man on the street" picks up quickly the idea of spring from winter, of new life from the decay of the old. It inspires songs like "the circle of life", but is cyclical change really change? It may be change, but it is not new; it is simply a revolving

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The Gospel according to Matthew 15:31-32 says, "So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, 'He saved others; he cannot save himself. Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe.' Those who were crucified with him also reviled him." (ESV)Through the eyes of mortality the priest's request is not a bad one. Why not

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The top right corner of my blog features my video/song of the week. Tom Waits takes the spotlight this week. I was fortunate enough to have roommates in college who had a broader and more flavorful collection than mine. Let's put it this way; my most embarrassing moment involved me thinking my rock-n-roll roommates were out of the house and me taking the liberty to blast... true confessions

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So this might not be the most insightful blog, but here goes. Having a 15 month old has changed our tv habits. For 1, at night we watch our shows with headphones on, my wife thinks we will wake Sydney otherwise... I'm not convinced. For 2, morning getting ready time is easier with Disney and PBS. All of this to say that I have been reunited with some childhood favorites. Sesame Street is one

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Cyril of Jerusalem writes:“Wherever Jesus appears, there also is salvation. If he sees a tax collector seated at the counter, he makes him an apostle and an evangelist; if he is buried among the dead, he raises them; he gives sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf. When he walks around the pools, it is not to inspect the buildings but to heal the sick.” (Homily on the Paralytic by the Pool,

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This is a video of a man named Taylor Mali. He is a slam poet. Why is it called slam poetry? I don't know. However he raises a great question and then makes a great point. Taylor addresses the issue of relativity in opinions. Why are we so afraid to speak emphatically?In the so called name of inclusiveness, tolerance, and being "politically correct" we have become a people who no longer

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The Difficulty with starting a new blog or recreating an old one is that there needs to be a beginning. Where else would one start? But beginnings are difficult, as no one truly begins at the start of a thought. A new thought is simply a scion of an older thought. Those thoughts which inspire other thoughts are simply, or rather quite complexly, our processing of experience into order and

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