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Showing posts with label Faith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Faith. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Are Your Kids Religious?

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  A friend who is amused by my own wandering spiritual path in the last half decade asked about the faith/religion/spirituality of my six ki...
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Saturday, June 30, 2018

Who Fights Our Wars: Sgt. 1st Class Thomas, Gospel Worship Leader, Tanker

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In the 70s chaplains came to the Army with graduate degrees and credentials as Priests, Pastors, or Rabbis from their religions....
Friday, May 27, 2016

Army, Adoption, Racing and Faith: Don’t Start Unless You Are Ready to Suffer

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Beginning in 1971, Army recruiters advertised “Be All You Can Be” to pitch enlisting in the Army.   They used just five words with thirte...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Politics and Freedom in "Fury"

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This morning I was reading Hannah Arendt's "The Promise of Politics" on freedom and leadership.  Politics, Arendt says, shoul...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

What Place and Period in History Do You Want to Live in? HERE and NOW!

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On a recent bicycle ride, a Trekkie on the ride told me about a Star Trek episode he liked in which the crew traveled back in time ...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Seeing "Fury" for the Fourth Time

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Last night I saw the move Fury for the fourth time.  I was in NYC and saw it with Jim Dao, who covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan fo...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

"Fury" Brings Back Memories of Tank Gunnery and Life in a Turret.

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On Monday night my son Nigel and three men from Church went to see "Fury" with me.  I re-read books I love and will watch mov...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Review of "Fury"

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Last night I went to see the movie "Fury" at the 945pm showing.  That meant movie did not start until 1006pm and was not ove...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

What's Next Neil??

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"What's next Neil?" My riding buddy Chris Peris asked me that question yesterday.  I have been hearing it a lot since ...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Beginning a Friendship at the End of the Ironman Triathlon

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My story of finishing the Ironman Triathlon in Louisville, Kentucky, on Sunday, August 24, will begin with the end--or near the end.  At mil...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Recruiting Souls and Soldiers, Sadly Similar: Faith in the Military, Part 15

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In His brief ministry on Earth, Our Lord was a lousy recruiter and an utter failure at marketing.  In all of the Gospel accounts, Jesu...
Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Faith in the Military: Civilian Life is a Feast of Learning and a Spiritual Famine

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Recently I read an article about the explosive growth in Christian colleges recently.  For many Christian kids, the choice they have is...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Jerry Falwell Made Me a Democrat: Faith in the Military, Part 12

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Among the many contradictions in my life, I am a Democrat.  That might not seem surprising for someone who grew up in Stoneham, Massachuse...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Faith in the Military: Reading Expands the Universe

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In November of 1979 I left the active duty Army.  In January I started college at Penn State's Capitol Campus in Middletown, Pa.  T...