Archive for May 2007

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Violent Holiness… Violent Earnestness

Matthew 11:12 - From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force.
Whoa.  This is a powerful statement.  I think that I just kind of breezed over this verse for years… but now, it’s stuck in my head and in my heart. 
Jesus [...]

Neopaganism, Robert Heinlein, and what it means to Grok

I first read Robert Heinlein’s A Stranger in a Strange Land about 16 years ago at the age of twenty. I LOVED this book. In fact, I loved it so much that I bought my daddy a copy of it for Christmas the same year I first read it, which is a really big deal [...]

To Demand Prayer

Apparently the KCI Airport has 250 cabbies who service the flight community.  Two-thirds of this number is made up of Middle-Eastern heritage peoples who, you guessed it, practice the Islamic faith.  Now, this information doesn’t scare me, nor does it surprise me.  In fact, it causes me to remember to pray for the large Muslim [...]