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I mentioned not long ago that I was redesigning my website and moving my blog. The day is fast approaching when such a dream will become reality, and some of you have therefore received friend requests from me on new LiveJournal and Xanga accounts. Recognizing that a lot of my ( Read more... )

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Penny-Arcade had an awesome contest this week for some World of Warcraft trading cards. When I say “some,” I mean around $3-4000 worth of cards, 3 huge stacks of cardy goodness. The contest was to write a short story set in the World of Warcraft universe, but the story could only ( Read more... )

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I want to spend a lot of time this summer reading about the Middle Ages and Nixon. There are so many assumptions made on these topics, so many stereotypes and wild rumours around… I want to know the truth. I want to read the real history of what the Church was like throughout the ( Read more... )

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At the end of the semester, my schedule will lighten considerably. I will have finished my two-year internship at the church; from then forward, three nights a week will be freed up. School will also be over for a few months, leaving me with a bit more breathing room. Therefore, I ( Read more... )

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I’ve got about three or four entries in my head to write, six if you count the other two blogs I update, but I haven’t done anything since last Wednesday. I left on Wednesday evening for a business conference at Tan-Tar-A Resort down at Lake of the Ozarks and haven’t gotten back ( Read more... )

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Frivolity has nothing to do with happiness. It plays upon the surface of things, and the surface is almost always rough and uneven. The frivolous person is the person who cannot fully appreciate the weight and value of anything. In practice he does not appreciate even the weight ( Read more... )

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The Word of God
Catherine Faber

From desert cliff and mountaintop we trace the wide design,
Strike-slip fault and overthrust and syn and anticline…
We gaze upon creation where erosion makes it known,
And count the countless aeons in the banding of the stone.
Odd, long-vanished ( Read more... )

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Cross-posted from FnC College Ministries

My senior year of high school, particularly the latter half of it, was filled with meetings and obligations, ceremonies and hand-shaking. There’s a lot going on for most seniors, but between Speech & Debate, National Honours Society, ( Read more... )

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When I first started my website back in 2004, I registered it as spiritgod21.com and, to justify the .com suffix, I registered for Google Adsense and placed discrete advertisements on all my pages. Over the course of the next year or so, I made maybe $7 off these ads, and since ( Read more... )

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I haven’t actually done any writing, but my brain is abuzz with ideas. I’ve been developing races and religions, political fallouts and schisms and histories. I’ve considered differing hierarchical structures and what military actions would be appropriate for the culture in ( Read more... )