About an hour before Barack Obama took the Oath of Office to become our first African American President, I attempted to explain “Racism” to my 6 year old son.
In simple terms, I described to him how “black people” were mistreated and discriminated against by “white people”.
He promptly asked, “Are we white or black?”
I replied, “White”
He [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Faith’
December 12, 2008
Commuting Considerations
Thought of Christmas this morning on the commute into work.
I was out of any new podcasts and traffic was kind of heavy due to the false prediction of white, wintry conditions that never transpired, so I had some time to reflect.
I thought of past Christmas times and how I viewed Christmas then and how [...]
November 18, 2008
Quotes from Velvet Elvis
I was hoping to reread Rob Bell’s book Velvet Elvis and write some thoughts down from the first half of the book as I had from the later chapters, but it seems that my frugality in using the library has worn thin and I won’t be able to as it is now overdue. I [...]
November 3, 2008
Halloween and Faith
I met Agusto this past Friday night, on Halloween. He joined my extended family around our fire as our kids happily devoured their candy rewards from earlier trick-or-treating efforts.
I felt like I was to share Jesus with him.
I didn’t.
Or maybe I did.
Agusto is from Ecuador. He has three kids. He owns a successful business. [...]
