Category Archives: faith

dear mr. president

Posted on November 7, 2012 by matthew

November 7, 2012 Dear President Obama: I am so glad that I will continue to call you “President” for the next four years. I am also glad that your campaign will no longer be emailing me five times a day! … Continue reading →

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the great chicken squabble of 2012

Posted on July 30, 2012 by matthew

I would have loved nothing more than to let this Chick-Fil-A debacle blow over without adding my silly voice to the cacophony. I tried to ignore the endless stream of comments in my social media streams,  to avoid the topic … Continue reading →

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thou shalt make enemies

Posted on July 19, 2012 by matthew

Everyone has enemies, and our own desires are to blame. I want this. You want that. Our desires conflict and… BOOM. You’ve become my enemy. From the person who cuts me off in traffic to the whole nation of people … Continue reading →

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sorry you have a vagina (and 5 other things i learned from the pentateuch)

Posted on June 21, 2012 by matthew

I recently set out to read through the entire Bible, from “In the beginning” to “Come, Lord Jesus,” in 90 days. It’s a rite of Christian passage that I have never seen all the way through, despite my lifelong tether … Continue reading →

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i’ve never read the bible

Posted on June 6, 2012 by matthew

Confession: I’ve never read the Bible. Well, not all of it. Never from cover to cover. I’ve read a lot of it – a pretty vast majority of it, to be certain. Most of what I have read, I’ve read … Continue reading →

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