If the ever growing influence of American culture�exported ubiquitously into the world�is likened unto a revival of Rome, then we could expect that the only kind of church to successfully influence it is the one that owns nothing but the vocations of its members, shares its faith in the marketplace, and gathers in the catacombs.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
�George Orwell

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
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We will never do our part to save humanity until we stop pretending that fear is the same thing as wisdom.

It was about 1:00 p.m. in the afternoon, and Lauren, the friend of a friend, was out driving. An UNMARKED police car pulled up behind her and put his lights on. Lauren’s parents had told her never to pull over along the side of the road for an unmarked car, but rather to wait until […]

First, forgive me of any over-simplifications that follow. I’m blogging, not writing a doctoral dissertation (some may disagree), so I’m trying to get to my point as quickly as possible …
As I understand it, humanity was born in the middle of the world, what we now call the middle-east should probably in all fairness just […]

I am not a suburbanite. I’m not. I’m not. I’m not!
So why then am I here in Suburbia? Did I miss something? Some critical piece of direction? Have I lost my way, my edge? Have I deceived myself into thinking that somehow I’ve been “called” to this place to do something important and that’s why […]

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the realization that some things are more important than our fears.

Sow the wind … reap the whirlwind.