Category Archives: Wake Up Calls

Disrupting Complacency

As I was contemplating this fourth edition of our Being Spiritual Disrupters series, a conversation I had decades ago unexpectedly came to mind. It was one of those brief, rather mundane and insignificant exchanges that 

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Disrupting Fatherlessness

Earlier this week, I had thought we might need to set aside our “Spiritual Disrupters” theme introduced in my two most recent posts (In Need of Spiritual Disrupters and Disrupting Foolishness) and shift 

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In Need of Spiritual Disrupters

Disruptions are almost always annoying, at least they are at first. By very definition, they interrupt familiar routines and challenge normal expectations. Regardless of their source, disruptions always manage to capture our attention, at least for a moment or two. … Continue reading

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An Exercise in Spiritual Arithmetic

Back in the dark ages before electronics began to dominate our world, American ingenuity produced a way to liberate us from 

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Love Not the World…

Earlier this week, I applied a treatment to protect some of our ornamental shrubs outside. The process fit perfectly with 

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Now What?

It seems longer, but it was only a week ago that multitudes of us were in the midst of planning our Easter celebrations. A kind of holiday 

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