Faith

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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What if Death is Independence Day?

by Shawn July 4, 2011

As a human being, we fight many battles on many fronts. Children’s battles are mostly local skirmishes fought on a relational level – with parents, or with other kids. Then our intellect matures and the battle moves simultaneously inward and outward – inward battles with ourselves and our emotions and our intentions; outward battles with [...]

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Five Final Thoughts on “Love Wins” (and then I’m finished)

by Shawn June 16, 2011

After six weeks, I’m glad we finished up our book discussion on Rob Bell’s Love Wins (mostly because I’m getting tired of the early Sunday mornings). Here are five final thoughts and then I’ll never mention this book or author again (something that is very unlikely):

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The Most Dangerous Prayer

by Shawn June 13, 2011

Today I’m guest posting over at Ben Emerson’s blog: But the process of redemption is not always good to better to best. Sometimes it’s good to bad to very bad to better-than-you-ever-could-have-imagined. Now head on over there for the full post: The Whole Dang Thing (should be up by 9am Eastern Time). * * * [...]

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Put Down the Remote Control, Church Leaders

by Shawn June 6, 2011

Control. A controller dictates the actions of things on video games. We use remote controls to make tiny cars turn or watch what we want on television. Control towers dictate the movement of thousands of planes every day, all around the world. So I guess in these instances, control is fun or challenging or makes [...]

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When My Daughter Asked “Why Doesn’t God Answer Our Prayers?”

by Shawn June 3, 2011

My 6-year-old daughter Lucy has a series of bumps on her skin that she doesn’t think about during the day, but at night they are painful, and they itch.  The doctor gave us a name for them, something I can’t remember or pronounce. “Nothing serious. They’ll go away, in time,” the doc said. When we [...]

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How Bo Jackson Made Me an Enemy of God

by Shawn May 31, 2011

This week, Jen Luitwieler, Kristin Tennant and I are each taking turns blogging about writing, community and solitude. Check out Kristin’s take today (link supplied at the bottom of the page). Tune in here tomorrow for my thoughts, mostly pertaining to the fact that I am a hermit. Most of the decisions I make on [...]

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