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The Bible says that people should "make a joyful noise unto the Lord" (Ps. 98.4). Unfortunately this joyful noise has been replaced by angry words. Churches argue over how worship should sound. Even though this seems like an unimportant issue to those outside the "church world," churches have split over what songs are sung during Sunday morning. This seems like a matter of taste, but people have theirl reasons for taking sides. ...More
My Dad spent twelve years of his life in college and earned the title of Doctor in Nuclear Engineering. My mom put herself through nursing school and then worked to help dad through the last ten years of engineering school. Thereafter they moved to a suburb of Baltimore where for two years they made payments on a nice house.....More
The other day I was sitting in one of the study areas at the Rampart Range campus and I overheard a conversation between two traditional college students. The young man of the dynamic duo asked the young woman if she liked “black people.”
She replied, “I don’t like the way they dress. Well, I like the way the guys dress but not the girls.” ....More
WInsomnia has been my number two reality, filtering people and events in the way movie directors do with camera lenses and audio compositions. What I heard, felt, and experienced after three months of not sleeping was quite a ride. People moved and disappeared against physical laws, voices were distorted and distant, meaning was lost, and the daily routine (cleaning after the dog, paying bills) was dramatic, difficult, and down right scary. Everything was plain exaggerated....More
Can you avoid the media? Now let us think about this. We are flooded by thousands of reporters, variety of languages and images in hundreds of different media formats. Thousands of daily events are worth mentioning and millions of people that we come in contact with communicate daily events.....More
Life is ever-changing and ever-growing in Colorado Springs, and all the while life here is becoming a more intolerant experience. We have become complacent in the way that we deal with intolerance. Whether it be racial or religious, this is an ongoing issue that begins with families and ends with this ongoing struggle that divides our city....More |
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