I’ve never considered myself a runner. Quite the opposite, in fact. Although I enjoy several sports, all my life I’ve literally ‘ran away’ from any sport or activity that required continuous exertion, on account of the agonizingly dreadful burning in the chest that happens when the ‘out of shape’ do what seemingly just isn’t natural. Sitting on the couch and watching other people run on TV was more my thing. It just seemed more… I don’t know… enjoyable, and pain free to boot. I have several … [Read more...]
Free Range Kids
My father was the ultimate free range kid. He grew up in a Virginia coal mining town called Dante (if you’d like to know how to pronounce it, think less literary history and more along the lines of a word that rhymes with ‘ain’t’), a place nestled so deep in the Appalachian Mountains that you literally have to look straight up to see the sky. Like most of the men in that town and dozens more like it, his father and his father’s father were coal miners, and while his father worked he and his … [Read more...]
No King But Jesus
A key scene from the movie Son of God accurately portrays the very real fears of the Jewish leaders of Jesus’s day. Despite the cruel realities of Roman rule, Roman governors like Pilate still allowed a semblance of local rule, in this case the chief priests and pharisaical leaders of the Jewish religion. Cozy in their roles yet still degradingly subservient to the Romans, the last thing Caiaphas and the other rabbinical leaders needed were "rabble rousers" like Jesus of Nazareth giving the … [Read more...]
Christmas is not for me!
It’s finally Christmas Day and, for the first time in weeks, I don’t have anything pressing to do. The sad thing is, I’m all alone… well, if you don’t count the coughing, feverish, fluid-spewing three-year old I just put down for a nap after praying a silent prayer that she would actually fall asleep instead of calling me for something every five minutes (“Daddy, I need ice in my water. Daddy, I need my pink bear, not my white bear, but the PINK one. Daddy, I need the princess music, not the … [Read more...]
The age-old quest for power
J.R.R. Tolkien tells the tale of a ring so powerful that, should it fall into the wrong hands, the world would plunge into darkness. Lost underground for ages, it finally made its way into the hands of a noble young hobbit, Frodo Baggins, charged with delivering it to the only place where it could be destroyed, the fires of Mount Doom. His epic journey there and the help he received is a classic story for the ages. Before Gollum’s greed eventually sealed his own and the ring’s destruction, the … [Read more...]
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