October 2010
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Church and State VS God and Country
They’re different. Church and State is vastly different from God and Country. Our culture - the media, the general public – unwittingly confuses the two, often equating Church to God, and State to Country. When they’re merged into one topic, it’s easy to see how an agenda can be accomplished. The ACLU is famous for “protecting” the rights of those “offended” (State or Country) by a display of...
September 2010
2 posts
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The Voice of the Created
One of my favorite books at the moment is The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles. The main premise is that no matter your art, there is a struggle with resistance to create it. I consider myself an artist, certainly. But I’m not sure what I consider my primary artistic medium to be. I went to college to study music. I worked in the music industry producing,...
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A Real and Deep Relationship, Unless You're...
Unless your Muslim.
The Dove World Outreach Center’s website says, “God loves you and he longs for a real and deep relationship with you.” That’s nice. And I believe it’s true. But I don’t think that Dove World Outreach Center does.
In all fairness, I didn’t contact them before I posted this. Perhaps I should have, but I honestly don’t think they...
August 2010
6 posts
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You think you know the President, but do you know...
The recent Pew Poll on President Obama’s perceived religious leanings has been all over the news. For better or worse, but I couldn’t help finding myself challenged by the findings. Politics, and the issues we entrust to our politicians are often far more complex than most of us can really comprehend. Not that we can’t understand them, but we’re often only presented with a portion of the facts. If...
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Vicarious Parenting
A post I wrote a few years ago that I thought you may find interesting. I’m simply reposting it here as a way to consolidate all of my blogs.
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I started this blog a few days ago wanting to write my observations about some parents who’s children are competing in a nationally televised competition called The Next Great American Band. If you...
A-Social Networking
Since I’m switching blogging platforms (from blogger to tumblr), I’ve decided to bring over some of my old posts. I could do some tricky rss-feed import with comments, but it’s just as easy to copy and paste. Here’s one I wrote a little over a year ago as I was working on some social networking sites for my church.
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I’ve spent the last week and...
tumblrbot asked: WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?
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My Father, The Roofer.
My father, Reid Ribble, is running for won his election to the United States Congress in Wisconsin. I’m still growing up. I want to be just like him when I do. I’m married. I have a career all my own. I have two kids, a wife whom I adore. But, when I’m fifty and look into the mirror – I hope it’s my Dad I see smiling back at me.
When I was around ten years old – it really doesn’t matter how old, I...
Swing Speed
I originally posted this on my vox.com blog. I’m reposting it here.
I’ve spent the last few months gathering my thoughts for this post. I have been writing, rewriting, revamping, changing, and generally spending my time in general dissatisfaction with how I was phrasing what I want to say. So I deleted everything I wrote, and am going to do a slightly edited stream of consciousness.
I’m...