Tag Archives: My Life

Expectations

A lit­tle while ago my daughter’s scooter was stolen. It was a weird crime. It was taken off of our front porch, in the mid­dle of the day, while she stepped into the house for a moment. We assume it was just a neigh­bor kid who was walk­ing down

Open Letter to Jehovah’s Witnesses 2008

As another year passes, it brings with it a gen­eral increase in tri­als and trou­ble on the world scene. Dur­ing one time of trou­ble for the Israelites in the wilder­ness they found relief by look­ing toward a sym­bol of Jesus’ sac­ri­fice. (Num 21:8,9) Sim­i­larly, dur­ing this Memo­r­ial sea­son it is also a fit­ting

The Christian Bookstore

As a teenage Jehovah’s Wit­ness, a reli­gious group with a strict moral code, some­times when in a group of friends, typ­i­cal teenage rebel­lion would rear its head — not in the form of action — but in the course of con­ver­sa­tion. Some­one might pose the ques­tion, if you were dis­fel­low­shipped from the orga­ni­za­tion

Worms in my Manna

When hur­ri­cane Kat­rina hit I was a bit thrown off-guard and filled with fear. The hur­ri­cane was bad enough but the after­math was bru­tal. The media painted a pic­ture of hor­ror; where the law­less­ness of peo­ple was only matched by the fail­ure of gov­ern­ment. The whole