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#setfree2016 Public Health Crisis

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What is Set Free Summit?

Experts on the effects of pornography on the brain, human sexuality,  prostitution, human sex trafficking, and church leaders from around the globe are speaking this week in Greensboro, NC, at the 2016 Set Free Summit. Over 850 community leaders are present for this event. To learn more about Set Free Summit, co-hosted by Josh McDowell and Covenant Eyes, visit Conference Details. #setfree2016 underscores the battle lines drawn in the fight over which cultural entity will win the hearts and minds of culture.

Will we become a people with a distorted view of human sexuality–pornography, rape, prostitution, and human sex trafficking, or will we set the standards for incorruptibility, integrity, honesty, and virtue?  For Josh McDowell and Ron DeHaas (President of Covenant Eyes), this is a noble calling–a battle for the hearts and minds of all people.

Continue reading to see “Public Health Crisis,” a #setfree2016 haiku.

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#setfree2016 in Greensboro (Haiku)

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30 of the world’s top experts are speaking before more than 800 church leaders on the scourge of pornography and sexual exploitation this week.  Is anyone listening?  To learn more about what is happening in Greensboro this week, go to Conference Details.

 

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Corruption rains down

Yet the lampstand burns brightly

 God’s might be with you

 

 

 

Gourmet Fare: A Marriage Proposal

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There are a myriad of ways a man will pop the big question to his fiancé. Asking your special lady for her hand in marriage should not be so complicated, so why do men go to great lengths for the most exclusive, exciting, romantic, or bizarre proposal? I “get it.” It is a special event, and let’s face it, this is something you want to do once in a lifetime. You want it to be memorable and romantic and beautiful, and maybe even spectacular!

That’s how I envisioned it. So I wrote a proposal sonnet and presented it, along with the ring, in what I thought was the perfect place and time. But my timing was a bit off. I realize now what I didn’t know then: We hadn’t known each other long enough or well enough. After meeting her objections (I was sweating it), she accepted my proposal. Approximately 7 months later, we married. That was 11 years ago.

If I had to do it again, I would be more patient. Timing is everything, and that’s the only advice I can offer. Patience.

For you guys who want it to be special, you may want to check out the “58 Most Romantic Ways to Propose” on the Knot website. I recommend making your marriage proposal romantic, memorable, and prudent–something you and your bride-to-be will cherish for a lifetime.

My proposal sonnet is titled “Gourmet Fare.” It is the forerunner to the best day of my life, when I married my lovely bride, Dawn Hamilton Lindsey–a day which is much more memorable than proposal day. Continue reading to see it. Thanks for visiting today!

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Ubiquitous Energy, Dark & Scary

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Scientists have been studying what they have dubbed “dark matter” for decades, which is an epistemological black hole of sorts, because they don’t know what it is, really…it’s a mystery.

This NASA Science – Astrophysics article titled “Dark Energy, Dark Matter” explains how scientists have several ideas about what black matter is not, rather than what it is. And several articles I have read articulate the foregone conclusion that, should we discover what dark matter/dark energy is, it is likely that our common knowledge of gravity and the theory of relativity would be turned upside-down. How’s that for an astrophysical, cosmological quagmire?

Then I discovered a poetry genre grounded in dark matter. I’m not surprised. I don’t think I’ll latch on to this movement, but it did tickle my creative taste buds. Continue reading to see my dark matter haiku. Thanks for visiting, and Happy New Year, y’all.

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