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My Family, Peeing on the Narrow Curb of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway

by Shawn July 17, 2011

I’m sitting in our bed. Maile is asleep. I just heard thunder outside (either that, or the neighbors up the hill are shooting fireworks again). Two lights are on in the house – the one beside the bed and the one in the hall. That hall light is for the kids, because how would they [...]

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A Knee-Jerk Reaction to Mark Driscoll’s ‘Apology,’ the National Debt and Rupert Murdoch

by Shawn July 14, 2011

If you don’t already know the latest Mark Driscoll fiasco, please jump down to the next section. I don’t feel like rehashing the whole thing, for a few reasons, but mostly because it’s depressing to me that a Christian leader continually says ridiculous, hurtful and just plain stupid things. You’d have to illegally monitor most [...]

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How the Desire to be an Idol Will Keep You Off Track

by Shawn July 14, 2011

I think there is something inside all of us that wants to be found. Like an American Idol winner, we want to be plucked off the street and handed a lucrative contract to do what we love, instantly surrounded by adoring fans. Discouragement looms when we are faced with the reality of many long years [...]

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The Best Guitarist in the World

by Shawn July 10, 2011

These days, the first thing I look for when our church’s band starts playing on Sunday morning is who’s on electric guitar. In the last six months or so we picked up one of the most passionate electric guitarists I’ve ever seen.

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A Knee-Jerk Reaction to the Casey Anthony Verdict

by Shawn July 5, 2011

As Maile and I walked into the motel, I heard a police officer in the lobby. “You guys mind if I turn it to CNN?” he asked the lady cleaning the room. “They’re about to announce the Casey Anthony verdict.” We walked up to our room and turned on the television. The timing was impeccable. [...]

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Dying For Your Friends

by Shawn June 28, 2011

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friend. The couple walks to the front of the church holding their child. She is asleep now (of course she is – it’s day time). They are awake now, every night, rocking her and feeding her and sleeping on the [...]

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My Life’s Metaphor For Disappointment

by Shawn June 27, 2011

Mostly I just remember the heat. And the dust. And the fire ants. I suppose the cares and concerns of children remain on fairly basic levels, and as a four-year-old boy living in Laredo, Texas, those were my main worries. I remember hearing that there was a swimming pool in our new trailer park. My [...]

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