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Friday Effluvia: HAPPY MAKING: BREAKDANCING FOR IL PAPA An oldie but a goodie. Love JPII’s hand gestures and obvious delight. Read more
Friday Effluvia: HAPPY MAKING: BREAKDANCING FOR IL PAPA An oldie but a goodie. Love JPII’s hand gestures and obvious delight. Read more
GODSTUFF THE VIRTUE OF VIRTUE: NT WRIGHT Last winter, while on a trip to Southern California, theologian N.T. Wright spent some time strolling through Laguna Beach, the seaside village I happen to call home. He wandered into one of our many charming boutiques — he called it, perhaps more accurately, a “junk shop” — and saw a sign that piqued his interest theologically. It read: “There are times I think I’m doing things on principle, But mostly I just... Read more
An Angel Got Her Wings: Kim Kalicky Some of you are familiar with Kim Kalicky’s story. I’ve written about her here in this space a number of times over the years and she also appeared in my book, Sin Boldly, in the chapter titled “Annus Horribilis.” (See Kim’s stories HERE. My original column about the Thanksgiving I spent with Kim and her family can be found HERE.) Kim went home to Jesus last Friday after a brave and epic five-year... Read more
White As Snow: A Lenten meditation White As SnowBy U2 Where I came from there were no hills at all The land was flat, the highways straight and wide My brother and I would drive for hours Like years instead of days Our faces as pale as the dirty snow Once I knew there was a love divine Then came a time I thought it knew me not Who can forgive forgiveness where forgiveness is not Only the lamb as... Read more
Friday effluvia If you’ve never heard the Grateful Dead’s rendition of Van Morrison’s “And It Stoned Me,” it’s a real treat. Enjoy and happy weekend all! Read more
The Dude Abides, baby. Join Maudey here from 6-8 pm Friday night March 5 at Laguna Beach Books, 1200 S. Pacific Coast Highway in Laguna Beach, CA, for a book event and costume contest. Come dressed as your favorite Coen Brothers film character and you could win a fabulous prize. We’re serving White Russians and Oat sodas. Get a free Dude Abides beer cozy with every purchase of The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers by... Read more
Tsunami Saturday You know you’re not in the land-locked Midwest any more when your village is watching the sea for tsunamis. An 8.8 earthquake 6,000 miles away in Chile has sent a roiling ocean our way. My perspective has literally and figuratively changed so much since moving to the shores of the Pacific. Six-thousand miles away and we feel it here. The ocean connects us. It doesn’t separate us. That thought reminds of something the Sufi poet Rumi wrote:“The shop... Read more
GODSTUFF BUDDHISM MEANS ALWAYS HAVING TO SAY YOU’RE SORRY: TIGER WOODS EDITION Apart from the Dalai Lama, who reportedly had never heard of him until earlier this week, Tiger Woods is the most famous Buddhist on the planet. But until Woods invoked his Buddhist identity during a televised mea culpa for cheating on his wife and a spectacular fall from grace, like most of his fans, I had no idea the golfer was a follower of the Eight Fold Path.... Read more
“I forgot … how big.” Extraordinary. Read more
Can you believe how big he is?How grown-up he looks? I’m humming that song from “Fiddler on the Roof” … where is that little boy I carried? Vasco continues to flourish here in Laguna. He is excelling at school, in the arts and sports. He also really loves Jesus, which makes us more happy than we can say. That part seemed to come innately to this spiritually wise child. And our church is doing a great job (maybe us, too)... Read more
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