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Dad, I’m bored.

Yesterday we were part of the Northeast that got hit by the storm and ended up with a snow day. Now, I’ve lived in areas that see far more snow and it gets much colder than it does in Philly, but I can enjoy a snow day as much as my kids. In today’s world […]

Unclean! Unclean!

Leprosy is not a common illness in our society. I’ve been dwelling on the question lately: “Who are the lepers of society in our culture?” Who are the people whom society tends to look through as if they aren’t there? Who are the people who get marginalized into non-existence? More importantly, are there those that […]

S.O.S.

You can’t succeed at the new opportunities presented to you without changing the old habits you have established.The Same Old Stuff will prevent you from stepping up to the plate of change. I am experiencing a change in my role in the marketplace. New responsibilities are being added to the plate with no removal of […]

Quote: Transformation

If transformation stops after conversion, they weren’t converted. If it stops after instruction, according to Paul, they get puffed up. Only the person who converges the two, has any hope of transformation. Bob Roberts Jr in Transformation: How Glocal Churches Transform Lives and the World

Twitter BREAK fast

Twitter BREAK fast

Twitter fast is over. Here are some thoughts that occurred to me through this self-imposed exile from twitter land. 1. It wasn’t that big a deal. 2. The biggest part of fasting from Twitter had to do with ‘relational maintenance.’ Being connected in the land of tweats did actually leave me feeling a little disconnected […]