Category Archives: Faith, Family, and Culture

Another “Love Month” Begins

Posted on February 8, 2025 by Ron Gallagher, Ed.S

In most years, February is probably my least favorite month. It’s a bit early to judge this one yet, but February usually brings challenges we could do without. For instance, before we can manage to pause long enough to 

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Is It Time to Take a Mulligan?

Posted on February 1, 2025 by Ron Gallagher, Ed.S

It’s the first day of a brand new month. Not only that, but here in Middle Tennessee, the weather’s getting warmer, the sun is shining, and it 

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Emptying Our Way to Fullness, Part 4 ~ An Unanticipated Conclusion

Posted on January 25, 2025 by Ron Gallagher, Ed.S

It seemed fitting that writing the final installment of our Emptying Our Way to Fullness series coincided with the final week of our

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Emptying Our Way to Fullness, Part 3 ~ A Question We ‘Should’ Ask – but Never Do

Posted on January 18, 2025 by Ron Gallagher, Ed.S

Like me, have you also heard that various investigators and prosecutors are cautioned never to ask a question they don’t already know the answer to? I don’t know if that’s true, but if it is, it’s obviously intended to prevent 

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Emptying Our Way to Fullness, Part 2 ~ “Enough” Already

Posted on January 11, 2025 by Ron Gallagher, Ed.S

As we continue our new series on Emptying Our Way to Fullness, we see that in the process of teaching us things we need to know, often God’s first inclination is to 

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Emptying Our Way to Fullness, Part 1 ~ The Journey Begins

Posted on January 4, 2025 by Ron Gallagher, Ed.S

Like the rest of America and much of the Western world, we awoke on Wednesday morning to the news that 

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