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What We Know About the Bible that Ain’t So – 3

This is the third and last post related to what is known by most Christians about the Bible that ain’t so. While much of this information is reported in Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus, the following facts have been well… Read the rest

Starbucks saves a life

How Starbucks Saved My Life:
A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
by Michael Gates Gill

Before we started playing bridge last week, one of my reading buddies, Annette Vogelsang, dropped this small book… Read the rest

Michael Jackson: A Conflicted Man-Child?

Michael Joseph Jackson, “King of Pop” and rock music icon for nearly forty years, suffered cardiac arrest and died Thursday June 25, 2009, at the age of 50.

Michael Jackson died because his heart unexpectedly stopped working,… Read the rest

The Joys of Growing Older

One inconvenience of having our own personal plumbing is the inability to put it on hold for any great length of time. Joyce Hodges (who is currently mending from hip replacement surgery) remembers just one of those moments and… Read the rest

English is a Difficult Language

Editor’s Note: This article was first published at Chi-Newman.com on April 4, 2009. Chi has been nice enough to share it with our readers. I think you will chuckle a bit as you learn the difficulties

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Stand by Me

We all have our favorite songs. Like just about everyone alive who is within earshot of a radio, I instantly react when I hear certain songs being played.

“Stand by Me,” co-written and originally recorded by Ben E. King,… Read the rest

Farewell, My Beijing

Last fall I had the pleasure of visiting my old friend and the co-editor of JustOneOpinion.com, Dick Kelly, at his home in Tucson, Arizona. While we were having coffee and catching up on each others’ personal lives over the… Read the rest

How realistic is a "Green Collar Economy?"

Editor’s note by Dick Kelly: Jon Waalkes lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Along with his wife, Kim, Jon has a passionate interest in making this earth a healthy and prosperous place for his future yet-to-be grandchildren to live when they

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The Green Collar Economy

I just finished reading The Green Collar Economy, and I can’t ever recall reading a book that changed my way of thinking so dramatically. Now I believe it’s possible to reverse the current economic free-fall and at the same time make the world a better… Read the rest

Milk

My wife, Helen, and I had a friend and Grand Rapids’ neighbor, Dick Stien, as a guest for eight days in our Tucson home early in December. Dick tells people that he is “post gay,” so it didn’t come… Read the rest

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