For many years I wrote about fiction, story, belief, ordinary life, and the questions that shaped my work. More than two thousand essays remain here—not because every one represents my current thinking, but because together they tell the story of a writer learning over time.
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A Plumbing Adventure
Over the past few days I’ve noticed—somewhat subconsciously—water pooling on top of the ground next to the cutoff valve that controls the water to the barn. We’ve had…
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A 2023 New Year’s Challenge
I challenge you to write something every day during 2023. And, file it in some retrievable format. For many—maybe most everyone who reads this post—this will not be…
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The 2022 Orange Bowl
“Maybe there’s a bowl game on.” I said out loud so J, the controller of the TV’s controller, would check. At the time we were watching an episode…
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A Fun Trip to Dollar General
I drove to the nearest Dollar General–the one by Four-Way Express–last Tuesday for some cough drops and vapor rub. Eddie went with me (he’s the black lab I…
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Keeping the Folks in the Pews in the Dark
By David Madison at 10/21/2022 Here’s the link to this article. What the church doesn’t want them to think about Worship services are a form of show business, at…
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Why Even Conservative Christians Should Accept Evolution: Blog Anniversary Guest Post by Michael Shermer (part 2)
September 8, 2022 Here is the link to this article. For several months now I have been posting Guest Posts that were generoulsly provided by others in honor…
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Why Christians and Conservatives Should Accept Evolution: Blog Anniversary Guest Post by Michael Shermer (part 1)
September 3, 2022 Here’s the link to this article. I have been publishing guest posts in celebration of the blog’s tenth anniversary, and am pleased to conclude the…
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When Does Human Life Begin?
By Rich Prendergast, 10/25/22 Here is the link to this article. The essence of the pro-life argument against abortion is their belief that “life begins at conception”. They…
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Questioning the Resurrection, Part 3
By David Madison 06/29/2019 By Robert Conner, with interpolations by David Madison[Note from David Madison: This article was written by Robert Conner, who asked me to review it and…
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Questioning the Resurrection, Part 2 (of 3)
By David Madison [Note from David Madison: This article was written by Robert Conner, who asked me to review it and add whatever comments I wanted. I contributed about…
Richard L. Fricks 