🌎 The person my mother thinks I am

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April 6, 2024

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#1 The person my mother thinks I am (Essay)

My mother is fond of telling me, “Scot you’re David!” The David she has in mind is the biblical one. And when she conflates me and King David, I’m positive she is thinking of the David who is described as being a “man after God’s own heart” and not David the murderer and womanizer....

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This week, I ran across two stories that struck me. In some ways, they could not be more divergent, but in other ways, they echoed. Both had to do with faith communities and how one, directly, responded to a threat and how another refused to see one....

#9 Wonders in the heavens and signs on the earth (Essay)

The eclipse on April 8th, 2024, has my social media feeds abuzz with all kinds of end-time speculation and projected significance beyond the actual wonder of the moon coming between the Earth and the Sun....

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