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Alien Invasion Please!

Posted on May 7, 2018 by Michael Kivisto

I finally finished watching The Vietnam War documentary yesterday.  It took me about six months to watch the entire 18 hours of Ken Burns’ amazing, heartbreaking deep-dive into that wasteful war.  Probably my biggest takeaway from the whole thing was the realization that this particular war is what divided the United States into Us vs….

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The Controversy Of Gayness

Posted on April 30, 2018April 30, 2018 by Michael Kivisto

I was at a church community group meeting last night when one of the participants began to tell us about a conflict going on amongst the governing bodies of the Reformed Church of America.  Quick background: Each church in the RCA belongs to a larger governing body called a classis whose job it is to…

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Seize The Moment

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Michael Kivisto

I’ve been thinking a lot about contentedness recently.  There are myriad slogans and catch-phrases that address it, such as ‘money can’t buy happiness’, ‘seize the day’, ‘first-world problems’, ‘do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life’, etc., but it can’t really be explained away that easily.  Contentedness is a lot…

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