Jeffrey C. Long

This song by Arrested Development says a lot about how I feel about religion these days. I haven’t been free to talk about it here while pastoring Filer Mennonite. And not surprisingly that experience had a negative impact on my faith. I’m finally making a turn around. But it’s remarkable how ridiculous the whole enterprise [...]

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I have no idea how to bookmark this.http://www.poodwaddle.com/clocks2.htmInitial launch, those are the number of births in the year, deaths in the year, etc. You can click on now, day, month and get those statistics in smaller doses. Check out the other clocks too.

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“Even if we do not as yet know what true humanity is, we already know well what inhumanity is. As Gerd Theissen notes, people were once especially eager to find the “missing link” between primates and human beings. Now, however, it is dawning on us that we ourselves could be that “missing link.” -Walt Wink, [...]

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It’s been around 3 weeks since I started teaching elementary music. The greatest challenge is that I have to make music accessible to the broadest range of ages imaginable. Today I taught kindergarteners, 4th, 5th and 6th graders. Tomorrow I will add 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders to the mix. Each age has its own [...]

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