Christianity in the Raw’s blog

A Year Ago Today

nobody@vox.com(Christianity in the Raw) — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:44:59 -0400

A year ago today The Wife and i went to a Red Lobster in Georgia and sat down to discuss either reconciliation or divorce. Truth be told, it could have gone either way very easily. The Church i attend, MercyHouse, had paid not only for the marria...

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Civil War Weary

nobody@vox.com(Christianity in the Raw) — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:02:09 -0400

I have been dutifully doing my work to finish my incomplete. I am designing a unit of lesson plans covering the Civil War because we were allowed to choose our own subject and i couldn't think of any other subject that has so much information in ...

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Light Myself On Fire

nobody@vox.com(Christianity in the Raw) — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:00:58 -0400

So things are coming down to the wire for me in terms of student teaching this semester. I have to jump thru so many useless hoops that i feel like a trained poodle. One of the last obstacles to getting this all set up is completing an incomplete ...

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Dead Man Risen

nobody@vox.com(Christianity in the Raw) — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:52:25 -0400

Christianity makes sense to me exactly because it explains what i have been observing and experiencing my entire life, that there is much more pain and suffering than peace and wholeness, not only in the world around me but in myself as well. Chr...

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Dead Man Walking

nobody@vox.com(Christianity in the Raw) — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:22:41 -0400

I went to services on Sunday morning & it was a good thing, as i needed to hear the text that was being preached: "Deny your self, pick up your cross daily, and follow me." Nothing against the good man whose responsibility it was to bring the mess...

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A Saturday Rant

nobody@vox.com(Christianity in the Raw) — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:33:47 -0400

I've been thinking about the saying that the more things change, the more they stay the same. There is a lot of truth in this statement, although people have, in different epochs, thought very differently to come to very similar conclusions. For...

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Busy

nobody@vox.com(Christianity in the Raw) — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:34:54 -0400

So I have been way to busy to post very much lately. My car was too rusty to pass inspection, so i had to bring it into a "body shop" a local boy has in his -- get this -- tobacco barn. My local and honest beyond belief mechanic referred him, as h...

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Dogma /Karma/Ideology

nobody@vox.com(Christianity in the Raw) — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:30:20 -0400

Over the few years that I have lived in the Happy Valley i have heard innumerable people voice that they preferred Karma over Dogma, often in a very condescending tone, or with a sneer on their face and voice. I'm sure many have seen the bumper s...

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Wasted Days & Wasted Nights

nobody@vox.com(Christianity in the Raw) — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 13:01:35 -0400

Well, the other shoe finally dropped, and of course it turned out to be mostly my responsibility, altho i was given terrible & contradictory information. I have a very old GSL that i am currently having trouble with, and right at the worst possibl...

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Growing up Pentecostal/Greeks & Romans

nobody@vox.com(Christianity in the Raw) — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:46:53 -0400

Yup, if you remember the sequence of the days of the week you will know today, mouseketeers, is Literary Thursday. Yayyyyy! I'm tipping my hat to the neighbor lady back home when i was a kid; she always let me come over and watch old black and wh...

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