ETC: Everyday Thoughts Collected

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I first wrote about Augusten Burroughs‘ not long ago. I was impressed with his writing ability and honesty.
I mentioned that I wasn’t really ready to read his book A Wolf At The Table because it sounded traumatizing. I knew it would trigger some of my own [...]

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…Because we were you know.  I visited his website last night and found out he has a book due out next week named Snuff.
It’s fiction about some lady who stars in a porno with 600 other men.
I don’t need a telegram from the Angel Gabriel to figure out that there is absolutely zero reason to [...]

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I was in DC last week for a Pastor’s conference. It ended Friday around 2pm and our next meeting was really a birthday party at 6pm. In between I took a nap and then went to Barnes & Noble. While there I saw a book by Augusten Burroughs called A Wolf At [...]

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The following was originally published on Boundless last October.  I thought I would add it here as well.
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Schaeffer’s Manifesto: A Revolution Realized
by Randy Thomas
The culture war is coming to an inevitable and dangerous turning point and Francis Schaeffer knew it would. The battle between Christianity and secular humanism - absolute Truth versus personal truth - [...]

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Alan Chambers, Tony Campolo and myself.This morning I had the alarm set for 5:15 am so I could leave by 6:15 am to get to the other side of the city for the prayer breakfast by 7:00 am. It’s a good thing it was a prayer breakfast because in order for me to be [...]

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