Let’s agree on this: Human rights are not the kind of politics it’s impolite to talk about.
Right now, tens of thousands of wanna-be Americans are stuck in an asylum system with the deck stacked against them. 0.1% are making it through.
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A Problem in the Garden
San Diego County has two growing seasons, the problem this year is that plant life hasn’t quite figured out which season we’re in yet.
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Beloved
So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
Philippians 2:12-13, NASBSilent exhale. Deep inhale. Breathe through your nose. Calm yourself enough where you can hear your heartbeat.
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Thank you to the Christian Leaders Speaking Out
Thank you to the Christian leaders who are speaking out and taking risks to do so. I see you and I appreciate what you are doing. Keep going.
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My Response to Attempts to Twist Gun Control into a Conversation About Abortion
A question posted to my Facebook wall solicited this response. Again, shared here to bring light on the GOP’s illusion of a “Pro-Life” agenda.
My question to you and many others is this – Why are we not fighting against abortion clinics and against those who support abortion the same way many are fighting against guns?
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Hobby Lobby, The Music Man, We Got Trouble
Like everyone else I was shocked by the news that Hobby Lobby, a privately owned company whose owners successfully challenged the Affordable Care Act mandate that their health insurance cover birth control on grounds that they are a closely held owned company driven by Christian morality, got caught smuggling Iraqi antiquities into the United States.
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Waste
Earlier this week I wrote about the journey we are on in our household to bring a dead place back to life.
Want to know a crazy by-product of this process? A dramatic decrease in waste.
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Bringing It Back to Life
We bought our house about 18 months ago. But the house wasn’t new to us since we’d lived across the street for 7 years prior to buying it.
It’d been a rental for about 20 years prior to our buying it. And for 7 years we watched as people moved in, people moved out, sometimes they’d stay for 6 months and sometimes they’d stay a couple years. Some we were friends with but most we barely got to know their names before they moved out.
