Whatever happened to community?

On October 5th 2015 Philadelphia area colleges and universities were on alert because of social media threats made on social networking. At the same time some of my old friends from Eastern, who work for peace in Jesus’ name down at The Simple Way, had also received threats which they described with the statement, “we…

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Goodbye Nook

Several years back I received my first eBook reader for Father’s Day. It was a Nook Simple Touch with glow-light, and I loved it. I took it with me everywhere and found reading on it extremely pleasurable. So much so, in fact, that purchasing printed books became reserved for special volumes which I wanted in…

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Unpacking Taking in the sights

I was happy to do some more character development in this passage. Ama got to act as moderating presence for Walter, Michael got to see a small crack in his shining vision of Walter, and Jeremy came to a strong conviction. Lets’ unpack. The setting We had such an ugly introduction to the Inner Valleys…

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Fiction Tuesday – Taking in the sights

“Captain, I hope you will use your discretion about what you just heard.” Michael turned to Walter in shock. “Sir, I know you’ve been gone a long time, but I hope you understand not everyone who holds authority in the Inner Valleys is corrupt. It is clear this young man is quite special, and also…

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Comparing Cameras

After I got my iPhone 6s+ last week, one of the questions posed to be by some folks was, “How is the camera?” I honestly couldn’t say. I’ve never been a good “snapshot” person, so once I acquired a DSLR I essentially stopped taking pictures with my iPhone camera. I figured if I was going…

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Just for fun

Last night Central Baptist Church had a movie night. It was supposed to be out on the lawn, but the weather forced us indoors. We showed Star Wars 1. Why Star Wars? I mean we are a church, and we had plenty of people who are not part of our church in attendance. Why not…

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