I started the new year with a melanoma diagnosis. It was a very small tumor that had not spread. The treatment was to just cut out all the skin around it to make sure there was no remaining melanoma and then spend the rest of my life being vigilant for any signs of a new…
The Bible is a ginormous volume made up of 73 different books spanning thousands of years following generations of people. Are there boring parts? Yes. Leviticus is a tad dry and there are other parts that take some determination to get through. As a whole, however, the Bible is an adventure packed rom/com action thriller…
For Realsies This Time I thought I’d try Father Mike Schmitz’s Bible in a Year podcast. This is not the first time I’ve tried the ole “Read the Bible in a Year” resolution. It’s probably the third or fourth try in as many years. I always start off strong with shouts of “This year, I’m…
My Facebook Exit had been a long time coming. The platform had started to make me uneasy a couple of years ago and not just because of the censoring or the privacy issues or the propagandizing or the politics or the ads popping up every time I had a conversation about buying something near my…
It’s a theme repeated over and over in the Bible: God’s beloved Israel is drawn into the clutches of the fallen world and God must go and rescue her. Die Hard is a modernized retelling of that story only with more guns, rocket launchers, C-4 and helicopters. It is my hope to settle the debate…
