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I’ll file this one under “rant”. I’m just going to type about something that’s been prevalent, annoyingly so, on my mind for the past 6 months.
When my son, Logan, was in the cardiac ICU unit of Boston’s Children’s hospital, I took part in dozens of conversations with the parents, relatives, and friends of children [...]

It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I feel like I’m being spoken to through music — realistically I think everybody’s had this experience at least once. Anyone who knows me, or who’s been following this blog, no doubt has heard me rant at least once or twice about my lack-of-appreciation for contemporary Christian music (CCM); [...]

The drunk’s concern ain’t that he’s going to die from drinking — which he is — but that he’s going to run out of whiskey before he gets a chance to do it.
If you were to give a drunk and drink and tell him he didn’t really want it, you’d be right in saying [...]

In the past few years I’ve started a love affair with words. I’m fascinated by everything about them — their pronunciation, proper use, and meaning. As I’ve been reading some books penned in the early 1900′s, I’ve actually noticed a degradation trend in the use of words — or perhaps more appropriately — their meaning.
This [...]

Three Stages of Life and Death by Hans Baldung Grien is my new favorite piece of art. If pictures are truly worth a thousand words, this masterpiece is scores of theology volumes:
From the babe, to the beauty, to the worrisome elder and then the subsequent death, this picture is a beautiful reminder of just how [...]