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Are We Mostly Harmless?
By Dean Lusk GARDENDALE | Wed Jan 2, 2013 8:15am EST -- Several years ago in Gardendale, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham, a group of people with similar interests began to meet in a community center they rented every o… -
Ten Least-Loved Christmas Songs of 2012
By Dean Lusk I have about 750 Christmas songs on my iPod. The problem, if it could be called that, is that I've cycled through most of them a few times already. (That's okay, because albums like "A Charlie Brown Christm… -
Abandonware: Getting Past the Fandom of Faith
By Dean Lusk I believe I'm part of the first generation that grew up with video games. I haven't really ever known life without them. I remember the Christmas when my brother got a Pong console (the APF "TV Fun" cons… -
The Only Cure Is... More Sleigh Bell!
By Dean Lusk The 1867 lithograph "A Brush for the Lead" by Currier and Ives Were the classic Saturday Night Live cowbell sketch with Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken executed in a Christmas setting, Walken would be… -
20 Items Or Less: Why Christ-followers Shouldn't Break the Rules
By Dean Lusk A while back I was driving toward an odd five-way intersection and was about to make a left turn. I put my blinker on and waited for the police car coming toward me in the other lane to pass by. To my surp… -
As God Is My Witness
By Dean Lusk "As God is my witness [insert something you're terribly determined to do]." Some reserve this saying for those very special occasions when a simple declaration just won't cut it. Maybe the most well-known v… -
Meeting the Minimum Requirements
By Dean Lusk Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can neither do nor teach become critics. (Or so it's been said.) Often I feel like I have a skill set that uniquely qualifies me to be a critic. In… -
Reactionary Christianity
By Dean Lusk Did you see the news in late August when the American Atheists organization put up some billboards for the Democratic National Convention? Fox News reported on it, then the advertising company was bombarded… -
Rewriting Jesus
By Dean Lusk The more I see and hear the news, the more I think many Christians must be using Bibles that have certain passages rewritten to accommodate their own personal or political worldviews and preferences: Ma… -
Adventures in Yardwork
By Dean Lusk I hope you'll enjoy this blast from the past (originally posted in 2008): An appropriate subtitle for today's post is "Lessons in Stupidity." Some of you will read this post and think, "Oh, no he di'n't,"…
About deanlusk
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- From: deanlusk
- Location: Huntsville, Alabama, United States
- About Me: Former worship pastor, now meeting and living in an "organic church" setting after a two-year journey through the Word, comparing it to the system I'd been a part of my whole life. I'm a musician and a very disorganized deep-thinker.
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