Category Archives: Miscellaneous

NHS Nightmare

I wrote the following poem several months ago, partly inspired by my own experience with the National Health Service (NHS) and those of others with far worse conditions than my own, reported widely in television documentaries, local newspapers, and magazine articles. I recognize that the overall tone is quite dark, but I tried to write [...]

You might be lukewarm if . . .

A thought-provoking, soul-searching list of eighteen signs that characterize the lukewarm Christian. Distilled from Francis Chan’s book entitled Crazy Love.
1. Lukewarm people attend church fairly regularly. It is what is expected of them, what they believe “good Christians” do, so they go. Isaiah 29:13
2. Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church [...]

Pagan Christianity :: New Distributor in UK and Europe

I have made arrangements for our local Christian bookshop to become a distributor of Pagan Christianity in the United Kingdom and Europe. The first shipment of hardcover books should arrive soon, so please make a note of the following contact details:

Harvest Books & Crafts Attn: Sheri Lollar 2 Church Street Pontypridd  CF37 2TH [...]

Rugged coastline near Wicklow, Ireland

The sun and the clouds struggled with one another all day for supremacy.

Off to Ireland: land of my Lawler ancestors!

I really can’t believe it: live blogging aboard a ferry headed for Ireland. A member of our house group took us to the train station in Pontypridd at 9:30 this morning and we arrived at Fishguard Harbor—located on the west coast of Wales—at 1:15 pm. Within forty-five minutes, we boarded the ferry to Rosslare, County [...]

So what is God like?

THIS GOD…
This God could put on eyebrows and kneecaps, tear ducts and saliva glands.
This God could be born under the tyrants Augustus and Herod.
This God could accept the smells of shepherds, and the extravagancies of political emissaries.
This God could start life a vulnerable hunted child born into scandal.
This God could grow up under foreign domination
and [...]