28 Apr 2015
Though I finally learned it was okay to relax some time ago, I still wonder sometimes which it is.
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22 Apr 2015
Over the last few weeks, I've read a lot of opinions about "free range" vs. "helicopter" parenting. The issue is not a new one, but people are talking about...
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21 Apr 2015
I've struggled for many years trying to reconcile my faith with my commitment to reason. Sometimes I've wondered if they are incompatible. What I've come to understand, though...
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14 Apr 2015
I am learning how to not obsess so much about things.
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18 Mar 2015
When I was in second grade, my friends and I used to use a secret cypher for passing messages to one another. The way I remember it, it was very simple, but only
we knew how it worked.
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17 Mar 2015
I'm not thrilled with Common Core either, but it's not because of the math.
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12 Mar 2015
Yesterday, I had a quick Twitter discussion with Calvin Lee and Donna White and this tweet...
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07 Mar 2015
I did not have a movie review queued up for this week, but I was inspired by my web notes today to review a movie I saw a long time ago.
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05 Mar 2015
This is one of those books I wish all of my Christian friends would read.
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04 Mar 2015
Just before Christmas, Newsweek published an article titled
The Bible: So Misunderstood It's a Sin. The article stirred up quite a bit of controversy and more than a few Christain bloggers wrote a reaction or clarification piece.
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03 Mar 2015
I read something yesterday and the timing could not have been more perfect - for two reasons.
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02 Mar 2015
Today is Read Across America Day which falls on the birthday of Dr. Seuss.
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26 Feb 2015
Facebook announced in a blog post yesterday that it would be rolling out new tools aimed at helping friends get help for friends they fear might be contemplating suicide. Like most things Facebook - or most things generally, I guess - I was skeptical at first, but it didn't take long for the idea to grow on me.
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25 Feb 2015
After years of using Feedburner, I've decided to give up on it.
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24 Feb 2015
I saw a nakedpastor drawing a while back that reminded me of a couple of posts I wrote almost four years ago
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23 Feb 2015
If you were watching the Oscars last night, like I was, you may have seen a new Apple ad featuring voiceover by Martin Scorsese. I was fortunate enough to be in the audience when he gave that speech, and while it was a long speech packed with lots of great inspirational stories, the beginning of that ad features one of my favorite parts.
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22 Feb 2015
It's no secret we're huge movies fan at our house. Every year, we try to see all of the nominated films before the Oscars. Some years, we have just a few to see. Other years, like this one, we have to really scramble to see them all.
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21 Feb 2015
Several years ago, we started a fun family tradition of seeing all of the Oscar nominated short films over one weekend.
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20 Feb 2015
If dad were here today, that's what he would have said. If mom were here, she would have laughed and rolled her eyes.
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19 Feb 2015
As I mentioned a few days ago, the work of Albert Einstein has had a significant impact on my thinking, even though, until recently, I didn't know much about him apart from his work - and some assumptions about his religious and political views.
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