May is not an easy month for me. It was in May 2003 that my mother passed away. Recalling memories of her has become a May ritual for me. One childhood memory that has surfaced this year was a time when my mother, in a fit of frustration, demanded that I stop asking such silly questions. [...]
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Silly Questions
Posted: May 26, 2011 by Glenn in 9-11, Christian, confessions of faith, distinctives, emergent, Love Wins, religion, Rob Bell, war2
For much of my life I have dreamt about being a leader. In my mind leadership always had something to do with “showing the way.” Martin Luther King Jr. did this when he talked about his dream. President Regan did the same when he asked Mr. Gorbachev to tear down this wall! Barack Obama motivated [...]
“As long as people think they have a chance of getting to the top, they just don’t care how rich the rich are.” I cannot help but wonder how true this statement is. The fairytale we most want to believe is that it is possible to pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps. It is [...]
This week President Obama announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed. I remember September 11, 2001 like it was yesterday. It wasn’t a fun day. I was in a plane, flying from Ft Lauderdale to Chicago, when the first tower was struck. I still remember being ordered out of our plane and eventually out of O’Hare [...]
