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• Weekend at the Cabin

  This past weekend, my wife and I went cabining in West Virginia with a few friends of ours. While we are not big campers (read: we have never been camping together and my wife has never been camping period), cabining is a nice way to “rough it” while still having [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2009, 3:59pm EDT
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• 25 Random Things About Me

  So its going around and I’ve finally been tagged. I guess it’s time to give 25 random thoughts about myself. I want to be a fulltime photographer someday. My favorite book of the Bible is James. The Bible is not my favorite book. Maybe it should be, but [...] [...]
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  Posted: February 02, 2009, 9:41pm EST
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• Sometimes, it’s not the nudity

  My first exposure to the phenomenon that is Hannah Montana came when my wife and I went to Typhoon Lagoon (a Disney World waterpark) and saw most of the little girls wearing these shirts with “I love Hannah Montana”, “Hannah Montana rocks”, etc. Having not exposed myself to the Disney [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2008, 1:42pm EDT
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• Where is Colin?

  Wow, has it really been almost a year since I last posted?!? It has been an extremely busy year. I started an accelerated masters program in systems engineering and will soon be a double Woo. This, together with family and work, have served to keep me from having much time [...]
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  Posted: February 16, 2008, 11:29pm EST
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• Carbon offset: the Indulgences of the Environmental Religion

  Dateline 1517: Pope Leo offers indulgences to the faithful who offer alms towards the rebuilding of St. Peter’s Basilica. In response to this (and other Church corruptions), Martin Luther writes his 95 theses providing one of the sparks for the Protestant Reformation. For those of you unfamiliar with indulgences, they are [...]
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  Posted: February 28, 2007, 11:12am EST
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• Honor and single-sanction at the University of Virginia

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  This is post specific to the students and alumni of UVa. If you have no interest in UVa and could care less how it handles matters of honor, by all means skip on over. … Still with me? Good. As many of you may or may not know, the students of UVa [...]
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  Posted: February 21, 2007, 10:33pm EST
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• Just what is the Church anyway?

  I just read an article from boundless that was written in response to an article by the ChurchReport.com that discusses the impact of shifting demographics towards singleness on the church. Basically, the idea is that US churches are seeing a growing population of singles and are struggling to figure out [...]
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  Posted: February 07, 2007, 9:35am EST
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• The Irresistible Revolution

  My good friend Matt has been recommending The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne for some time now; I finally pushed through and finished Tuesday night. It’s not that this book is an especially long or difficult read; I have just had a hard time pushing through it. Let me say [...]
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  Posted: January 18, 2007, 6:23pm EST
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• personality and a truck full of asphalt

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  My wife Bethany and I were talking tonight about personalities and being who God made us to be. We realized that we are alot like a network of roads. Each of us has been created by God to fit within the network wherever there is a need; each of us [...]
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  Posted: January 12, 2007, 8:45pm EST
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• -paedia

  from wiktionary: -paedia: related to learning Have you ever been in the car and heard something on the radio that made you contemplate the meaning of life, the universe, and everything (which is 42 by the way)? Too many times, I contempate something in my mind only to forget it as the [...]
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  Posted: January 11, 2007, 9:33am EST
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