Author: Robert Caldwell
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We are all Structurally Trapped…
I used to look at middle class people with some disdain. I would think these privileged people are insulated from the “real world”. They live in the suburbs, shop at Specialty Grocery Stores, drive hybrid SUVs, go skiing in Vail, and live oblivious to the challenges most people in the world face, and it pissed…
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A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet…
This line from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet often brings to mind a dear friend and Mentor of mine who is now in his 90’s. Over the years when I visited him he would often call me John, which was the name of a childhood friend of his that he loved. In some way I…
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Am I a Person of Faith?
In America, Baseball and Football are two sports that most of us are familiar with. Though there are several similarities between them, these sports are, in a fundamental way, vastly different. For example, both sports have teams made up of several players; both have a ball that is thrown and caught; and both, when on…
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There are no Atheist in Foxholes…
I recently heard again this familiar idiom “There are no Atheist in Fox Holes”, which in a snarky way is intended to say when facing death even Atheist cry out to God.
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The Gospel and the Prodigal Son
At which point does the Prodigal Son become a Son? All of my life I have heard the Gospel represented as a transaction where we pray a prayer and become a child of God, saved from Hell to go to Heaven when we die in; and for most of my life I accepted that representation…
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Teaching Truth
Why do you think Jesus embedded truth in stories, parables, illustrations and metaphors? Because people learn in a variety of ways, truth should be communicated in ways other than just the didactic left brained information exchange we are all accustom to… By embedding truth in metaphors, stories, illustration, and parables… it allows it to be…
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