Where faith and culture meet.
A person of peace is one who wants not to be right — but to make a difference in the world they live in.
Musings on scripture and culture. A long slow road for people growing into the work — and the life — they were made for.
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In the beginning — a good world on purpose
Genesis 1:1 – 2:3
Fruitful without losing your soul.
The world we've built runs on production, performance, and being one notch ahead. It is killing us — slowly, quietly, a soul at a time.
Psalm 1 tells a different story. The one who trusts the LORD is "like a tree planted by streams of water, bringing forth fruit in its season." The fruit is real — but it is the fruit of being rooted, not the fruit of running yourself into the ground.
In us. Through us. Beyond us.
That is what God's sons and daughters are made for. Not performers. Not employees. Not just better Christians. Free people. Rooted people.
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From the journal
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The final call.
Last chance to register. I'm not coming with answers — I'm coming with questions.
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This is not a political meeting.
Is this a conservative thing? A liberal thing? A church thing? No — it's a neighbor thing.
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Teachers are the key.
A first-year NC teacher makes $53k. A 30-year veteran makes $58k. If we want to change our community, this is where we start.
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We don't have to be like everyone else.
Seven beliefs and one promise — a Cabarrus County manifesto for the way we want to live together.
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We don't have to be like everyone else.
Cabarrus doesn't have to be like everywhere else. A letter to my neighbors about what we're losing, what we're missing, and what we can build together.
Rooted in the garden.
The story begins in a garden — with light, with water, with a Gardener who calls it good. The person who trusts the LORD is "like a tree planted by streams of water, whose leaves do not wither."
This site is a small attempt to stay planted there — through musings, through a year of daily Scripture, through a biblical read on the news — in a world that keeps offering us synthetic honey instead of the real thing.