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You Crave What You Eat

Bad news—scientific studies have proven it and our experience confirms it: you crave what you eat.  If you eat a cinnamon roll several mornings in a row for breakfast, you can be sure you’ll wake up wanting that soft, gooey, sweet goodness.  Food manufacturers are well aware of the way physiological addictions form and utilize this information to ensure sales.  There is big science behind the way they weave together sugar, salt, fat, and other added ingredients to leave us wanting more.  These ingredients trigger powerful physiological reactions that keep us coming back again...

Why I Am a Protestant

University campuses have always been dangerous places. You never know where you might end up should you dare set foot on one. I doubt that...

Here is the world…

One of my favorite authors is Frederic Buechner. I still remember when I read his work for the first time. I was fresh out...

Hope in a New Year

Have you ever heard the song “Same Old Lang Syne” by Dan Fogelberg? You probably have. Every Christmas season it comes on the radio...

A Theology of The Walking Dead

Oh, The Walking Dead. How far it has come. From the beginning, with sweet, naive Rick waking up from a coma and finding the...

What is the Fear of God?

I had the good fortune of hearing Atul Gawande speak at Forsyth Medical Center on Tuesday. He is a great writer. The Malcolm Gladwell...

Risen Indeed

It’s more than a holiday. It’s more than bunnies and delicious candy. It’s even more than worship on a crisp, early Sunday morning with...

Hope Around the Table

I’m a part of an amazing community group at my church – the Young Women’s Supper Club.  Our congregation meets in a high school,...
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