Tag: Faith
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Some Thoughts About Our First Child
About a week ago, my wife and I found out that we are set to become parents sometime around October 22nd. The news was somewhat surprising, although not wholly unexpected. I considered sharing some of the details with you, but I think the entire matter can best be summed up in a bit of helpful…
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The View From the Top of the World
Some eleven years ago, Vanity Fair contributor Bryan Burrough wrote a lengthy, if not macabre, article about the disappearance of a pair of mountaineers who were attempting to become the first individuals to summit Mt. Everest. The two were an odd pair. The leader of the 1924 expedition was renown British mountaineer George Mallory, who was…
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Book Review: Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me
On the shelves of our office library are a number of biographies. From Winston Churchill to Johnny Cash, we have no shortage of books about the lives of other, much more interesting, people. The number of memoirs, or autobiographies on our shelves is relatively paltry by comparison. This is not an accident. I tend not…
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My Trip to Costco
I took my first trip to Costco earlier this afternoon to purchase a membership. On the advice of a couple of friends, my wife was persuaded that the amount of groceries we purchase would easily make up for the price of joining over time. I’m not sure that it ever will, but that probably won’t keep…
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Little Pricks
The piece I wrote earlier in the week about Ben Stein and the economic meltdown has weighed on my mind lately. It isn’t a newsflash, but today’s headlines abundantly suggest that we live in an era of unprecedented economic uncertainty, and global unrest. Rioters in London burned their own homes in protest of UK budget…
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