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When Bear-Fox Came to School
It was Tuesday, March 26, 2024—just an ordinary day. Tuesdays this semester, consisted of rising early enough to plan a music lesson, dress and feed myself, and pack the books and lunch I’d need for the day all in time to leave by seven-thirty.… Continue Reading “When Bear-Fox Came to School”
FINDING IDENTITY: AN EIGHT TRACK
Music symbolizes the cultures that shaped me–my coming of age can be told in eight tracks.
How the Kingdom of Heaven Changes Everything
What the Bible says about war. How the Kingdom of Heaven changes everything. “My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.” Matthew 18:36
Love Your Enemies
How to Love Your Enemies: The painting hung on the little piece of wall between the hall into the high school wing and the staff room. I’d see it as I rushed out of the bathroom, pigtails swinging, hands clean for lunch. It told a story that I knew before I ever went to school. “Whosoever shall lose his life for Christ’s sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.”
Accept Authority as a God-given Grace I
What caused the hippies to believe bucking authority would bring world peace? What caused my grandparents to conform to a sedate, self-sacrificing way of life under the authority of an ordinary man they called “bishop”? They grew up in the same generation after all.
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