When Jessica and I got engaged, I wrote a rather lengthy, sentimental account of our story up to that point entitled The Boy & The Girl. Well, there’s nothing overly nostalgic about a 24th birthday or the two-year, five-month and three week anniversary of our wedding; so I decided to celebrate Jessica’s birthday by creating an abridged version.

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So this is what the people who wander the streets at 4am see.

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Now, lest you all, upon seeing “Jesse is twittering:” in my Facebook status, think that I’m “giggling nervously” or “tittering” all the time, allow me to explain.

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John Hodgman, to be precise.

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What would the title of your autobiography be?
Submitted by princesskasren.

Retrospect Verse

that or

A Life of PlasticMind

or perhaps

Pilgrim of Tomorrow

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Am I the only one who sees the resemblence?

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I always knew I'd make for a terrible baptist.

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Romans 13 vs. Matthew 5, or where is the line drawn between individual and governmental responsibility?

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Hard to believe it was five years ago today.

I was in my second year of teaching, leaning up against my desk waiting for students to filter in for our English class. The librarian poked her head in and told me to turn on the radio, that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I was a news junkie, so I turned on AM 770—"from the heart of midtown Manhattan". The students were goofing off as students do, but I largely ignored them. As I listened my blood ran cold.

What a strange situation, standing up there, myself afraid with all of those eyes on me. What's happening they wanted to know. I tried to explain, but when you're afraid everything seems bigger and harder to wrap your mind around. Someone wheeled in a television set and we watched the towers fall. We got reprimanded at the end of the day for letting the kids watch tv and listen to the radio. We could have scared them, we were told. Yeah, welcome to the world. Some of the student's parents worked there. I was shaken. They were shaken. We were shaken.

Five years ago today, I wrote down my fears.

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"We ain't had church yet..."
The Temple and the Synagogue
Chinese people's time with God

HERE: The Public Worship Service.

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PS (Free music, free debate)

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