Apparently some Christian soldiers stationed in Afghanistan are (sort of) proselytizing to the local population. Their story (aired on Al-Jazeera) brought to mind two reasons I'm proud to be American. Read more
Apparently some Christian soldiers stationed in Afghanistan are (sort of) proselytizing to the local population. Their story (aired on Al-Jazeera) brought to mind two reasons I'm proud to be American. Read more
About 10 years ago I lived a scaled-down version of the plot of the new movie The Soloist. I was freelancing for a free biweekly music tabloid here in San Diego called SLAMM. One Friday night I was seated at an outdoor bar in downtown in San Diego, when I heard cutting through the noise of the crowds and cars a male singing voice so … robust and perfectly pitched that I left the bar to go stand on the... Read more
An email reminds me of the fact that some of the most devout, biblically knowledgeable Christians I have ever known are gay. Read more
Hi, guys. If I may again impose upon your spiritual gifts and generosity. Difficult times, these, in our neck of the woods. Tamika Hudson is a young women who works for my wife Catherine. This past Friday, Tamika’s aunt, Kavelyn, succumbed to cancer. She was 41 years old. Kavelyn has three daughters—Vaneecia, Erykah, and Verhonda. They are ages eight to fourteen. Three years ago the sisters lost their father, a Marine, to the war in Iraq. So now they are... Read more
I hope, faithful and patient reader, that you don’t mind my yet again changing my blog template. This is the latest from WordPress, and I like it very much. I changed it because I much prefer the display font on this one—and it has a much stronger sidebar. LAST CHANGE, I swear. Thanks. Read more
"Calling it 'swine flu' is a clear failure of our National Euphemism Regulatory Department. NERD should have labeled this flu, right off, as the 'Babe Bug.' Or maybe "Porky's Predicament." Read more
Gary Michael, the man I wrote about here, has died. Thank you all for your very kind prayers. In this life Gary was blind. Now, with God, he sees. In this life Gary had the mind of a child. Now, with God, his mind knows no bounds. Read more
(Update: All the posts of this series have been collected into one piece, Seven Reasons Women Stay in Abusive Relationships, and How to Defeat Each One of Them.) [An update for those of you who read yesterday’s Blind Mans Heart Accidentally Cut by Surgeon: Prayers, Please: Gary is still on life support in intensive care. It’s such a shock, of course: one slight mistake, and a routine 20-minute procedure becomes a three-hour emergency operation. Gary’s prognosis is poor; he probably... Read more
I have a prayer/Good Vibes request, please. One of the thrift stores run by my wife Cat (for Encinitas’ Community Resource Center) is managed by a good woman named Karen. Karen has a 51-year-old brother named Gary Michael, to whom she is very close. Gary is developmentally disabled, and blind. This morning Gary was hospitalized for some heart trouble he was having. The doctors decided to install in him a pacemaker. That procedure went poorly; among other complications, it seems... Read more
In which I pitch to my agent two SUPERB ideas for Christian books: "The Shaq," and "The Porpoise Driven Life." Is he lucky to have me, or WHAT? Read more
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