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Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”

If you are married, on your wedding day you made a vow where you pledged your “faith, each to the other.” But what is faithfulness in marriage? Most people say faithfulness means not having sexual or emotional intimacy with anyone besides your spouse. And certainly that is a critical part of faithfulness.  But, believe itContinue reading “Have you been faithful to your partner? The answer may surprise you.”

I got old on Thursday. Not last Thursday. Okay, maybe it wasn’t a Thursday. I don’t remember, I’m old now. But it happened that way. In a moment. An instant. I was getting in my car to go to work. As I often do, I connected my phone to listen to my precious music onContinue reading “On Getting Old”

When someone makes a mistake, then apologizes for it, as far as I’m concerned, it’s done. Chances are usually that I wasn’t angry to begin with, but if I was, a sincere apology does a lot to resolve my anger and any hurt feelings I may have had. I went into the ministry and into counselingContinue reading “Absence of Grace”

In my last post I said conservatives often mistake compassion for weakness, and to the conservative mind, strength — if not everything — is extremely important. Strength, of course, has limitations of its own, which is another post. In this post I want to focus on the particular way liberals tend to misunderstand compassion. InContinue reading “How Liberals Tend to Misunderstand Compassion”

Conservatives tend to make the mistake of believing compassion is synonymous with being a “bleeding heart.” They may think someone calling for compassion is unreasonable, or doesn’t understand reality or economics. This is false. The word “compassion” is rooted in a Latin word that means “co-suffering,” and it’s literal meaning in English is “to loveContinue reading “How Conservatives Tend to Misunderstand Compassion”