Below are words from a flyer regarding a class I am going to teach at my church for adult Sunday school. I am excited and a little apprehensive about this venture. The excitement emerges from my love of teaching and theology, as well as the sense of fulfilling a calling. I am apprehensive due to [...]

Joel has embraced the dark side. It’s somewhat of a pain with him telekinetically snagging the remote out of my hand all the time, or getting me to say stuff like, “Sure Joel, you can stay up as late as you want, and here, why don’t you eat this ice cream I just dished up [...]

I sense there is more to giving thanks than I am generally in touch with. There are things in my life that sustain me and bring me joy, and I know that ultimately I don’t have these things because of my cunning or will. Instead, these things were given to me and so I [...]

Recently I have established my presence in the world of Facebook, which is actually more like a blackhole than a world, as it can easily suck away one’s time. There is something almost addicting about it; in the back of mind I am often wondering if I have a new friend request, or if someone [...]

Last Sunday morning, in the half consciousness that I typically occupy before I get out of bed, a thought came to me, “What if the religions of the world were cereal?” From this question the first cereal and slogan that I thought of went like this, “Buddha Squares! There’ nothing inside the box!” Further riding [...]

My body is determined to let me know that forty is just around the corner, and to process this, I thought I would make like an elderly person and share my physical ailments.
Lately I have been experiencing considerable discomfort and some pain at the part of my foot where my arch borders on my heels. [...]

A little over three weeks prior to her due date, Camila Rose Velez was born early evening Wednesday, weighing in at a mere 5 pounds and 15 ounces. She is my fourth child and she is a reality that is difficult for me process. I look at her and I know she is my daughter, [...]

My youngest son, Joel, suffers from overconfidence and a lack of healthy caution, which has resulted in him being more banged up and bruised in four years than his brother and sister have been in their combined 16 years. For this reason, I often don’t play along with him when he makes statements like, “you [...]

The purpose of my post today is to direct you to a page in the column on the right titled “Forgetting Reinhold Niebuhr”. I decided to create this page because Mr. Niebuhr was a powerful influence on my intellectual development, and thus he sheds some light on who I am. In fact, if you have [...]

I have been tagged by Tom for this random fact meme. Normally, I don’t participate in the email things where you have to forward whatever email to x number of friends, but this doesn’t come with any threat of back luck and it has been quite entertaining.
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Here are the rules:
- Those who are tagged [...]