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Category: Our Broken Culture

  • Shutting Down Carnival

    In April because of the col-19 virus, the Vincentian government called off “Carnival” which is a two-week party filled with many different events occurring in July. Personally I like the idea of carnival being cancelled because for many people its an excuse to get drunk, and dance with very little clothing on. To replace the […]

  • Confession is Not Rpentance

    Ezra 9:5   And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God, I was recently having a conversation with a prisoner at our weekly prison ministry about why so many of […]

  • Isolation Desired and Achieved

                  Last weekend I read a sentence from “Unsocial Media” an article written Tony Reinke for Desiring God  that hit me like a ton of bricks.  The quote is actually by Reinke from Stephen Marche and his article “Is Facebook making us Lonely” The interesting thing is the more […]

  • There is No Safe Place

                  This morning Heidi Carlson wrote an article entitled “Where can we be safe?” that spoke to my heart.  In it she describes bringing her children to a new park only to find a group of kids videotaping little girls fighting A group of about 20 school-aged children were […]

  • Thoughts on “my story” and it’s power in Social Media

                                    As someone who loves social-media and is concerned about its affects on our lives I was interested in an article by Samuel James this morning entitled “Breaking Free From My Story.”  In it he described how online accessibility of information have […]