Incoming metaphor! Stop, drop, and roll.
I’ve only entered two other races in my short “athletic” career. I completed a half-marathon a couple summers ago which turned out to be a miserable experience due to ridiculously hot weather that slowed me to a pace considered competitive only among potato bugs. By the time I crossed the [...]

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This weekend I’m in Monterey Bay for the Big Sur International Marathon and no, I’m not putting 26.2 miles on these precious piddy-pats of mine, particularly since the route follows Hwy 101 along the coast between Big Sur and Carmel making for one ridiculously hilly course. Instead I’m going to be sashaying my sweet little [...]

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At each and every moment in our lives We do one of two things. Either we tell the truth all the time, all the way Or we do something else. This something else, no matter how neatly disguised, is called lying. And the better the reasons we have for our lies, The more firmly we [...]

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I wrote this article for LOGOS, the student publication for Pacific School of Religion (PSR) in the Spring of 2003 during my graduate studies. I’ve posted it here with the hope it would lead to personal reflection for all of us located within a more progressive or liberal Christian context.
I was a fundamentalist Christian for [...]

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