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Or, My Six Months a Rock Star If you didn’t know, the formal definition of Rumspringa is “a rite of passage during (male) adolescence, used in some Amish communities.” (Wikipedia elaborates here.) For these young men, Rumspringa normally begins at age 16 and ends between ages 17 and 21, when they choose either to be baptized in the Amish church or to leave…
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When reforming one’s life, whether making amends for past mistakes or just turning over a new leaf, those two letters “RE” often come into play. Change for the better is good, especially when those retributions are under your own control. In the fight against addiction, some turns are mandated for us, even if we don’t…
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Thanks for checking back in for my further (mis)adventures. Sparing you the grim details of how I came to be incarcerated in 2022 (in short, it involved striking a family member, and alcohol was involved) let’s just say at that time I was in dire need of working some deep and passionate forgiveness. Any evangelist…
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And speaking of the word, I give you mine that this blog will not be entirely devoted to Biblical perspectives. (Today’s title refers to John 1:1) But, what I will offer as a primary thread, is a synthesis of lessons I’ve collected mostly from intensive reading and study in the last year and previously. As…
Behold, Happy Is The Man 