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Quivering Daughters

Duck? Duck? Goose.

This is the first in what we hope will be a weekly series of articles at the lovely website Quivering Daughters. If you like this kind of thing or need some encouragement, especially from Spiritual Abuse, check them out! If you’re coming here by way of QD, welcome, and why not subscribe? *   *   [...]

Guest Post on The Cult Next Door

Here’s one of those writing gigs I mentioned. A while ago, I was invited to contribute a guest post to a blog called The Cult Next Door that deals (appropriately enough) with issues of cults and spiritual abuse. The title comes from the fact that the author was for many years a member of [...]

The Sublime and the Ridiculous: Eight Values of Awesome

I’ve been overly busy lately putting the finishing touches on my CD, a new writing gig, and a few new songs. I think you’ll like them once they’re unveiled (not too long now, I promise! Really!).

I’ve added a few new features to the website just for fun: check out my Links I Like, [...]

Well, That Answers That…

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Reader Question: Did Jesus Teach Legalism?

Site reader and frequent commenter OneSurvivor (who by the way has quite a good blog on abuse-related issues) has rediscovered the best way to get me to write a post: Ask me a good question! No really, do; it gets me talking like nothing else. She recently sent in this comment:

I [...]

Literally Noir

The streets of the city are always dark, especially when it’s raining. And they just put a fresh coat of grime down 67th street. It got all over my office window. Not that you can see anything out my office window anyway. And if you could, you wouldn’t want to. I’ve seen it all, [...]

Andrew Murray: “In Spirit and Truth,” or the True Worshippers

I’ve studied, read, taught, and even preached on John 4 (the story of Jesus and the woman at the well) ever since I first started studying what the Bible teaches on worship, which means it’s been many years now. Every once in a while I come back to this, and I realize [...]

Weekly Digest: 2010-07-11

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The Twilight of the Something-or-other, plus my true loyalties: http://ping.fm/c2zwL # Nothing new under etc.: LOLcats from the 1870s! http://ping.fm/pUuw8 # Fun feelings: Meeting a really tight writing deadline with just two minutes to spare. Whoosh! # Charles Simeon: Not *entirely* neglected; our church is named for his. Still an engaging read! http://ping.fm/WvDUR [...]

Not Exactly “Der Götterdämmerung,” But…

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…I fear that (not to name any names) the recent fad of popular books and movies about Teenage Mopey Angsty Vampires may signal a twilight of art appreciation. It will be many a new moon before the works of great composers like Grieg will eclipse them in popularity again.

But I’m an optimist at [...]

Contrary to popular belief…

… this is not actually what editors live on.

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(Photo (c) E.P., taken in a little shop in Ireland. More about my life to follow shortly; just had to share the [...]

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