Remember the olden days, when your friend got that sweet dual cassette player that offered high-speed dubbing? That device meant you could grab all of your buddies’ music and copy it onto 90 minute blank cassettes with noise reduction technology.  You and your friends stole music like nobody’s business.  No one cared.

FFWD a couple years to a time when Napster became the dual-cassette deck of the world Read the rest of this entry »

It’s probably happened to you.  You were debating the existence of God, and your friend or debate sparring partner pulled out the winning question, “If God is a God of love, how come he killed off so many tribes of non-Israelites in the Old Testament?”  It is kind of hard to answer.  You spout off something about penal substitutionary atonement before the Mosaic covenant, argue for God’s moral law being broken or talk about cherem – shunning someone because of their behavior.  Your friend looks at you funny because your answer was confusing and it also did not satisfy the original question about a God of love.  I think I have a better answer for you; we’ll use the Ammonites as our example.

So the Ammonites needed something.  We’ll choose an arbitrary item, like: new shoes.  Read the rest of this entry »

Flash Fiction: short stories under a thousand words.  I woke up grumpy and pounded this out before I had to do some real work.  I don’t have a title.  You can give it one in the comment section, if you’d like.  Its not really spiritual, but then again it kind of is, I don’t know.  So, here’s the story.  I hope you laugh at it… click to laugh