Hope Blog
There are times when I really enjoy serving people. I’ve been volunteering for one thing or another my whole life. Part of it was how I was raised (serving in the church, being a helpful person) but a...
As we approach Thanksgiving this week, I had one thought that I wanted to share. One tension that I often experience and realize that living in one extreme or the other is not a healthy way to resolve...
I can’t remember who said this - but I love this quote!
"Profanity is the effort of a feeble mind to express itself."
If you’re a parent of older elementary, middle, or high-schooler- you unders...
I stated in an earlier blog post that there are NO stupid questions. I found one. There is a tension that people (churched people) often feel when trying to decide whether something is “spiritual or s...
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I LOVE shopping for TVs. The newest "4K Ultra HD Awesome Sauce TV" in the showroom gets my heart pounding, and I can envision how much better my life will be with it in my living room. This is goin...
When the doctrines of faith and science meet, many view it as a collision of opposite ideals and extremes - I see it as a beautiful waltz of 2 distinct ideals with more in common than people realize. ...
“Now remember class, there’s no such thing as a stupid question”. I can remember my 2nd grade teacher saying this to us often after she’d had just given us a list of instruction to follow. She wanted ...
I have a friend who considers himself to be a “cynical optimist”. I’m not exactly sure if that really is a thing, or just another fancy contradiction we’ve come up with to describe our complex persona...
Recently, an Atheist blog called “Rational Doubt” came across my FlipBoard newsfeed and I was intrigued by the headline so I decided to read the story. By the end of the article, I was just pissed off...
I’m not exactly sure that we are “destroying America”, but I do believe that we are setting up the next generation for failure, in turn harming our future by NOT setting them up for success.
Let me s...